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    A Call From the Journalism Academy for an External Review at The New York Times

    By Literary Hub  April 30, 2024
    On Race

    Tackling Ballet’s History of Anti-Blackness as a White Woman

    By Karen Valby  April 30, 2024
    The Hub

    For philosophy newbs: five thinkers to follow today.

    By Brittany Allen  April 29, 2024
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    We Made This Economy, and We Can Remake It: Natalie Foster on Building a Better America

    By Natalie Foster  April 29, 2024
    The Hub

    Verso and other publishers are offering free ebooks in solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests.

    By James Folta  April 26, 2024
    Economics

    Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

    By Joseph E. Stiglitz  April 24, 2024
    Drinking

    How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

    By Nicola Nice  April 24, 2024
    Banned Books

    Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

    By Yan Lianke  April 23, 2024
    Democracy

    On America’s Two-Party System… And the Damage It Has Done

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 23, 2024
    In Conversation

    Sasha Vasilyuk on the Price of Secrecy in Russia and Ukraine

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 23, 2024
    Revolutionaries

    The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

    By Ed Simon  April 19, 2024
    Free Speech

    PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

    By Literary Hub  April 18, 2024
    Book News

    The PEN Awards and World Voices Festival Are on the Brink of Collapse

    By Dan Sheehan  April 17, 2024
    Cultural History

    How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

    By Adam Kuper  April 17, 2024
    Journalism

    What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

    By Steven W. Thrasher  April 16, 2024
    Palestine

    Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

    By Ben Ehrenreich  April 15, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    By Alissa Quart  April 15, 2024
    Irish History

    How Ordinary Irish Citizens Got Caught Up in the Violence of the Troubles

    By Henry Hemming  April 15, 2024
    Geopolitics

    Considering the Lessons of the Cold War for the Next Great Power Rivalry

    By Adam E. Casey  April 15, 2024
    Gaza

    Why I’m Using My PEN Nomination to Protest for Palestine

    By Sarah Cypher  April 12, 2024
    Queer Literature

    More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen…” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

    By Kelly E. Hill  April 12, 2024
    The Hub

    Shop with solidarity at these unionized (and unionizing) stores and publishers.

    By James Folta  April 11, 2024
    The Hub

    An open letter from North American scholars condemns the “scholasticide” in Gaza.

    By Brittany Allen  April 10, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Dev Patel on Destruction and Growth

    By Talk Easy  April 10, 2024
    Gaza

    Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide

    By Philip Metres  April 9, 2024
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