• Politics

    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
    Libraries

    Libraries Are Even More Important to Contemporary Community Than We Thought

    By Eric Klinenberg  October 24, 2019
    European Culture

    Exploring the Forgotten Writerly Playground of the European Aristocracy

    By Orlando Figes  October 23, 2019
    Community

    From Burning Man to Industrial Rome, Gift-Giving as Ritualized, Collective Offering

    By Lewis Hyde  October 21, 2019
    Elections

    Can Democrats Keep Up With Republican-Controlled State Majorities?

    By Meaghan Winter  October 18, 2019
    New Books Network

    Daphne Kalotay on American Intervention in Afghanistan and Civilian Responsibility

    By New Books Network  October 18, 2019
    Native American Lit

    How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

    By Janice Gould  October 18, 2019
    Dictators

    Rebecca Solnit: Life Under the First Thousand Days of Donald Trump

    By Rebecca Solnit  October 17, 2019
    Being Trans

    Cyrus Grace Dunham on Why We Need to Explode the Gender Binary

    By Sarah Neilson  October 17, 2019
    Audiobooks

    Nnedi Okorafor on Writing and Narrating the Audiobook of Her Memoir

    By Emily Connelly  October 17, 2019
    Nationalism

    The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

    By Stephanie Newman  October 17, 2019
    Politics

    Anyone But the People: Rebecca Solnit on the Party of Trump’s Attack on Democracy

    By Rebecca Solnit  October 11, 2019
    News and Culture

    On the Front lines of Indigenous Activism

    By Jasilyn Charger  October 11, 2019
    Dictators

    In the Age of Political Thugs

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  October 11, 2019
    Feminism

    When Your Book Finds a New Voice, 50 Years Later

    By Alix Kates Shulman  October 8, 2019
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