• Politics

    Palestinian Literature

    Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail

    By Gunnhild Øyehaug  February 12, 2024
    Gaza

    “A Thousand Eulogies Are Exported to the Comma.” Of Syntax and Genocide

    By Nicki Kattoura  February 12, 2024
    American Presidents

    No Slaves, No Masters: What Democracy Meant to Abraham Lincoln

    By Allen C. Guelzo  February 8, 2024
    Borders

    Trouble at the Southern Border: How US Immigration Policy and Foreign Policy Are Inextricably Linked

    By Jonathan Blitzer  February 5, 2024
    Immigration

    How Big Data and the Surveillance State Collude to Undermine Immigrant Rights

    By César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández  February 1, 2024
    World War II

    Sisterhood of the Second World War: On Writing Female Spies’ Classified Adventures

    By CJ Wray  January 31, 2024
    Book Bans

    A Brief History of the Grand Old American Tradition of Banning Books

    By Laura Pappano  January 30, 2024
    Arab American Literature

    No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

    By Aisha Abdel Gawad  January 29, 2024
    Postcolonialism

    The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

    By Adam Shatz  January 25, 2024
    The Holocaust

    Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

    By József Debreczeni  January 25, 2024
    Reckonings

    What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

    By Danell Jones  January 25, 2024
    Resistance

    Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

    By Sahar Delijani  January 23, 2024
    Suburbia

    White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

    By Benjamin Herold  January 23, 2024
    Economics

    Nick Romeo on the Profound—and Scary—Influence of Economic Ideas

    By Nick Romeo  January 19, 2024
    Totalitarianism

    Why We Should All Read
    Hannah Arendt Now

    By Lyndsey Stonebridge  January 18, 2024
    Activism

    Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

    By Rebecca Solnit  January 11, 2024
    Politics

    How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rose Up and Won an Underdog Political Victory

    By Joshua Green  January 11, 2024
    Feminism

    Vigilantes and Vengeance: On the Women Who Fight Back

    By Elizabeth Flock  January 9, 2024
    The Hub

    Cops search middle school for banned books in liberal Massachusetts

    By Jonny Diamond  January 8, 2024
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

    By Literary Hub  December 23, 2023
    Supreme Court

    Mythologized Impartiality: A Conversation About the Supreme Court’s Checkered Past and Future

    By Literary Hub  December 20, 2023
    The Hub

    Unsurprisingly, George Santos doesn’t know who James Baldwin is.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 19, 2023
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 30 to 11

    By Emily Temple  December 19, 2023
    Book Bans

    Jane Smiley on What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned

    By Tai Caputo  December 19, 2023
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2023
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