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    Maoism

    On the Unlikely Extremes of Maoist Influence on the West

    By Julia Lovell  September 5, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Struggling to Write Outside a Colonial Framework

    By Meredith Talusan  September 4, 2019
    Art and Politics

    Building a Symbolic Wall of Oppression in the Middle of London

    By Justin Butcher  September 4, 2019
    The Hub

    More than forty cities are hosting protest readings for migrant justice tomorrow night.

    By Corinne Segal  September 3, 2019
    Ideas

    Rebecca Solnit: How Change Happens

    By Rebecca Solnit  September 3, 2019
    Florida

    Ignoring Political (and Natural) Disasters the Miami Way

    By Jennine Capó Crucet  September 3, 2019
    Feminism

    Where Was My Hero’s Journey?, My Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl?

    By Janet Fitch  September 3, 2019
    Immigration

    The Life and Times of a Filipino
    Overseas Worker

    By Jason DeParle  August 29, 2019
    European Politics

    Dignity vs. Money: Europe, Please Choose

    By Ilija Trojanow  August 29, 2019
    Criticism

    My Decade of Falling in Love with the Writing of José Esteban Muñoz

    By Marcos Gonsalez  August 29, 2019
    Political Conversation

    Journalist Peter Hessler on Moving to Egypt After the Revolution

    By Dylan Foley  August 28, 2019
    Democracy

    On the Dangerous Temptations of Political Contempt

    By Michael Patrick Lynch  August 28, 2019
    Guns

    Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

    By Chuck Augello  August 26, 2019
    Feminism

    Sady Doyle on the Man Who Insisted His Wife Was a Malevolent Fairy

    By Sady Doyle  August 26, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    What Does a War Correspondent
    Look Like?

    By Zara Meerza  August 23, 2019
    Immigration

    Suketu Mehta on Fighting
    Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Racist Populism in Trump’s America

    By Dylan Foley  August 23, 2019
    Empire

    Reading David Remnick 25 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union

    By Luke Harding  August 22, 2019
    Linguistics

    The Feints and Jabs of Polari,
    Britain’s Gay Slang

    By Paul Baker  August 22, 2019
    Capitalism

    ‘Late Capitalism,’ a Prose Poem by Alissa Quart

    By Alissa Quart  August 22, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Social Science

    By Literary Hub  August 21, 2019
    Activism

    The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

    By Charles Postel  August 21, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Politics

    By Literary Hub  August 21, 2019
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    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Essay Collections

    By Literary Hub  August 20, 2019
    Democracy

    Western Democracy is on
    Shaky Ground

    By Simon Reid-Henry  August 20, 2019
    Masters In Conversation

    Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels

    By Literary Hub  August 20, 2019
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