• Politics

    Activism

    What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

    By Franny Nudelman  November 6, 2019
    Reading Women

    Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women’s Nonfiction Award

    By Reading Women  November 6, 2019
    The Hub

    Florida men deny smalltown library access to the New York Times online, citing “fake news.”

    By Jonny Diamond  November 5, 2019
    Dictators

    Report From Foul Territory: Donald Trump Can’t Even Do Baseball Cliches Right

    By Timothy Denevi  November 5, 2019
    Ideologues

    From Entertainment to Outrage: On the Rise of Rush Limbaugh and Conservative Talk Radio

    By Brian Rosenwald  November 5, 2019
    Abortion

    Lindy West on Breaking the Silence Around Abortion

    By Lindy West  November 5, 2019
    American History

    How Did a Single Desk in the Senate Become a Focal Point for American Progressivism?

    By Sherrod Brown  November 5, 2019
    Civics

    Nancy Pelosi on Looking to Eleanor Roosevelt for Hope

    By Nancy Pelosi  November 5, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Displacement Generation: On Homesickness and the Millennial Memoir

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  November 4, 2019
    Philosophy

    Philip Goff and Philip Pullman Talk Materialism, Panpsychism, and Philosophical Zombies

    By Literary Hub  November 4, 2019
    Dissidents

    Ahmet Atlan: My Country Has Not Imprisoned My Mind

    By Ahmet Atlan  November 1, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 31, 2019
    Feminism

    The Creepy Dissonance of Reading Trick Mirror in a ‘Self-Care’ Book Club

    By Ruth Madievsky  October 31, 2019
    Madness

    American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

    By Troy Rondinone  October 31, 2019
    The Day of the Dead

    The Day of the Dead: Day of Masquerade and Rebellion

    By Paul Theroux  October 31, 2019
    Shakespeare

    Eclipsed by the Racial Shadow of Shakespeare’s Othello

    By Aatif Rashid  October 30, 2019
    On Identity

    The Complexities of Talking About Race When Trapped Within Its Confines

    By Thomas Chatterton Williams  October 30, 2019
    Gender and Politics

    Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

    By Eric Newman  October 29, 2019
    Protest

    Why Thousands Are Protesting in the Streets of Chile

    By Carlos Labbé and Mónica Ramón Ríos  October 28, 2019
    Prison

    The Impassable Divides of the Prison Visiting Room

    By John Edgar Wideman  October 28, 2019
    Capitalism

    How to Resist Late-Stage Capitalism—and Other Lessons From Charlotte’s Web

    By Erin Wisti  October 28, 2019
    Philosophy

    What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

    By Charlie Tyson  October 28, 2019
    Great Depression

    Howard Zinn: How FDR Forestalled a Second American Revolution

    By Howard Zinn  October 25, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
    Post-Truth Age

    By Joanna Kavenna  October 25, 2019
    Sexual Assault

    Unsubstantiated: An Essay of Sexual Violence

    By Susan Straight  October 24, 2019
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