Literary Hub » Politics

The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

Or, We're All Still Locked Away in Edward Rochester’s Attic...

By Gwendolyn Kiste | August 24, 2022

Can a Critic of “Wokeness” Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?

Can a Critic of “Wokeness” Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?

William Deresiewicz in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 24, 2022

Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the US Census

Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the US Census

Dan Bouk in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | August 24, 2022

What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

Dan Bouk on “Madam and the Census Man” and the Untold Stories Behind Census Records

By Dan Bouk | August 23, 2022

A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

Rasheed Newson on Sexually Accommodating Spaces as Community Hubs, and the Moral Panics That Destroyed Them

By Rasheed Newson | August 23, 2022

Mike Rothschild on the Ongoing Influence of QAnon and Its Self-Made Mythologies

Mike Rothschild on the Ongoing Influence of QAnon and Its Self-Made Mythologies

“Conspiracy theories will always be popular, because they make you feel like you’re smart, important, and part of a community.”

By Mike Rothschild | August 22, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

By Keen On | August 22, 2022

How an Unlucky Texas Fisherman Stumbled Upon an Environmental Catastrophe

By Kirk Wallace Johnson | August 22, 2022

The End of Bias: How to Create a More Just (and Prosperous) World

By Keen On | August 22, 2022

Trump, Crypto, QAnon, and Other Things That Won’t Exist in 2042

Trump, Crypto, QAnon, and Other Things That Won’t Exist in 2042

In Which Andrew Keen Attempts to Look Into the Future

By Andrew Keen | August 19, 2022

Mary Gaitskill on the Challenges—and Risks—of Writing Political Fiction

Mary Gaitskill on the Challenges—and Risks—of Writing Political Fiction

“Politics is how we fight it out on the ground.”

By Mary Gaitskill | August 19, 2022

On Carlos Ghosn and the Limits of Davos Man and the Globalized Neoliberal Order

On Carlos Ghosn and the Limits of Davos Man and the Globalized Neoliberal Order

Hans Greimel & William Sposato in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 19, 2022

A young Russian soldier has written a scathing account of Putin’s inept war.

A young Russian soldier has written a scathing account of Putin’s inept war.

By Jonny Diamond | August 18, 2022

Fascism Past and Present: Anthony Marra on What the Censorship of 1940s Hollywood and Italy Can Teach Us

Fascism Past and Present: Anthony Marra on What the Censorship of 1940s Hollywood and Italy Can Teach Us

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 18, 2022

How White Parents Shirk Their Moral Responsibility to the Common Good Under the Cover of Responsible Parenting

How White Parents Shirk Their Moral Responsibility to the Common Good Under the Cover of Responsible Parenting

Courtney E. Martin on the Many Ways of Asking the School Question

By Courtney E. Martin | August 18, 2022

How Covid Compounded All the Best and Worst Things About the America of the 2020s

How Covid Compounded All the Best and Worst Things About the America of the 2020s

Eli Saslow in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 18, 2022

« First ‹ Previous 99 100 101 102103104 105 106 107 Next ›Last »

Page 103 of 303