• Politics

    Trans History

    How to Brainwash Yourself: Grace Lavery on the Devices of Trans Identity in Literature

    “George Eliot was, unquestionably, a trans author.”

     
    By Grace Lavery  May 31, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Boyce Upholt: Legal Protections for the Saguaro Cactus and Recognizing the Dignity of All Life

    By Emergence Magazine  May 30, 2023
    Sudan

    To Understand a Country: 8 Immersive Novels About Sudan

    By Bhakti Shringarpure  May 25, 2023
    What to Watch

    Finding the Humor in Watergate: Co-Author Matthew Krogh on the White House Plumbers Adaptation

    By Matthew Krogh  May 25, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Rising from the Ashes: Felix Salmon on the Debt Ceiling Crisis and the Surprising Resilience of the COVID Economy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 25, 2023
    Summer reading

    25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    China

    On Xi Jinping’s Purges and the Contradictions of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

    By Chun Han Wong  May 24, 2023
    The Hub

    Just a few hateful parents are responsible for most of the book challenges in America.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 23, 2023
    European History

    Why the Idea of Western Civilization is More Myth Than History

    By Naoíse Mac Sweeney  May 23, 2023
    Motherhood

    No Alternatives: On (Not) Choosing to Be a Mother in Rural America

    Monica Potts Ponders the Predestined Fates of Women in Small Town Arkansas

    By Monica Potts  May 31, 2023
    First Draft

    “It Can’t Be Political Propaganda, but it is Political.” Curtis Sittenfeld on Crafting a Feminist Voice in Fiction

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 22, 2023
    Otherppl

    Anne Elizabeth Moore on Finding Minor Moments That Build a Picture of the World

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 22, 2023
    The Hub

    Hong Kong neck-and-neck with Florida in bookbanning competition.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 18, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting

    in Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 18, 2023
    Utopias

    Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains

    By Kristen R. Ghodsee  May 17, 2023
    Ukraine

    Beyond Metaphor: Inside the First Month of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

    By Serhiy Zhadan, Reilly Costigan‑Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 17, 2023
    Keen On

    Stephen Vladeck on how the Supreme Court is Using Stealth Rulings to Undermine the American Republic

    By Keen On  May 17, 2023
    The Spanish Civil War

    Why the Spanish Civil War Mattered to Writers on Distant Shores

    Sarah Watling Looks at the Role Literature Played in the Fight Against Fascism

    By Sarah Watling  May 15, 2023
    Science

    Jeremy Sherman Wonders Why There Are So Many Assholes Around These Days

    By Keen On  May 15, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

    By Sam Leith  May 12, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Readings from the 2022 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology

    By The Literary Life  May 12, 2023
    PEN World Voices

    To Heal the Planet, We Must Heal Ourselves: Ben Okri Proposes New Visions For Our Collective Future

    “The climate crisis is not really about the climate. It’s about us.”

    By Ben Okri  May 11, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The East Palestine Train Derailment and Your Health: Kerri Arsenault on the Pervasive and Ongoing Risks of Dioxin

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 11, 2023
    The Maris Review

    A Kind of Mutuality: Christina Sharpe on the Importance of Regard

    By The Maris Review  May 11, 2023
    Education

    How Women and Girls Struggle to Pursue Their Interest In Science

    By Melissa L. Sevigny  May 23, 2023
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