• Politics

    Book Bans

    How a Single Court Case Could Determine the Future of Book Banning in America

    Anthony Aycock on “Little v. Llano County” and the Increasingly Imperiled Freedom to Read in America

     
    By Anthony Aycock  June 17, 2025
    Spy Novels

    A Writer For Our Time: Why John le Carré’s Work Remains More Essential Than Ever

    By Rav Grewal-Kök  June 16, 2025
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  June 13, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 13, 2025
    Masculinity

    How Donald Trump’s Truculent Retro Masculinity Duped Working Class Men

    By Joan C. Williams  June 13, 2025
    Queer Literature

    Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression

    By Iryn Tushabe  June 13, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Queer History

    Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

    By Martin Padgett  June 12, 2025
    The Hub

    Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.

    By James Folta  June 11, 2025
    The Hub

    Some resources to help out neighbors, immigrants, and protestors in LA.

    By James Folta  June 10, 2025
    Class

    What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?

    Lee Cole on the Absence of Working Class Perspectives in our Literary Institutions

    By Lee Cole  June 17, 2025
    The Hub

    Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  June 6, 2025
    Incarcerated Writers

    Compulsory Silence: On the State-Led Suppression of Language in American Prisons

    By Amir Hussain  June 6, 2025
    Nature Writing

    The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

    By Daegan Miller  June 5, 2025
    American Politics

    States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

    Brando Simeo Starkey on the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, Racism, and Federal Power

    By Brando Simeo Starkey  June 5, 2025
    LGBTQ Stories

    The Wrong Story: Jeremy Atherton Lin on Writing Love and Politics

    By Jeremy Atherton Lin  June 5, 2025
    Queer History

    How Britain’s 1980s Anti-Gay Laws Impacted a Generation of Young LGBTQ Readers

    By Claire Lynch  June 3, 2025
    American Politics

    From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

    By Deborah Baker  June 3, 2025
    News and Culture

    Michelle de Kretser:
    “I ask you—I beg you—to join us in speaking out for Palestine.”

    From her acceptance speech for the 2025 Stella Prize

    By Michelle de Krester  May 30, 2025
    The Hub

    The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died.

    By Brittany Allen  May 29, 2025
    Character Studies

    How Curtis Sittenfeld’s “American Wife” Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

    By Jessica Stanley  May 28, 2025
    Anniversary

    Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication

    By Hari Kunzru  May 22, 2025
    Policing

    Saying No to Cop City: Reviving a Radical Black Liberation Movement in Atlanta and Beyond

    Curtis Duncan on George Floyd, Police Brutality, Community Organizations, and More

    By Curtis Duncan  May 21, 2025
    The Hub

    The Abrams Union wants a “more equitable, ethical, and transparent” publisher.

    By James Folta  May 16, 2025
    literary criticism

    L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

    By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
    On Race

    Bad Curls, Bad Character:
    The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

    By Sarah Gold McBride  June 9, 2025
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