• Politics

    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
    Cities

    The Memories of Streets: A Reading List of NYC Books That Capture the City’s Many Sides

    By Jonathan Wells  December 14, 2023
    The Hub

    This weird NYC couple doesn’t want you to read Palestinian children’s books.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 12, 2023
    News and Culture

    Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

    By Gideon Lewis-Kraus  December 12, 2023
    The Hub

    Dozens of indie booksellers have signed an open letter in support of Palestine.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 11, 2023
    What to Watch

    When the Culture Wars Came for Monty Python’s Life of Brian

    By Kliph Nesteroff  December 8, 2023
    Censorship

    Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction

    By Moira Marquis  December 7, 2023
    On Technology

    Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

    By Walter J. Scheirer  December 7, 2023
    Critical Race Theory

    Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

    By Literary Hub  December 7, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday List of Books for the Lefties in Your Life

    By Kristen R. Ghodsee  December 6, 2023
    Criminal Justice

    Precarious Liminality: How Parole Keeps Ex-Prisoners Stranded Between Two Worlds

    By Ben Austen  December 6, 2023
    Art and Life

    Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

    By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore  November 30, 2023
    The Hub

    For the love of “Orange Jesus.” Liz Cheney’s new book calls out GOP Trumpers.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 29, 2023
    The Hub

    Will Haberman and Swan’s 2025 Trump book be a comedy or a tragedy?

    By Jonny Diamond  November 27, 2023
    The Hub

    Reports suggest that Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has been released.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 21, 2023
    The Hub

    Reports suggest Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has been kidnapped by Israeli forces.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 20, 2023
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