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    On the Eerie Prescience of a Nazi-Era Diarist

    By Daniel Crown  August 6, 2018
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    Justin Phillip Reed, a Most Indecent Black Queer Poet

    By Literary Hub  August 6, 2018
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    What is Happening in Nicaragua Right Now?

    By Sergio Ramirez  August 3, 2018
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    Literary Fascists of the 1930s, Great and Small

    By Julia Boyd  August 2, 2018
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    Collecting the Last, Lost Stories of WWII

    By Bart Van Es  July 26, 2018
    Essay

    What Future is There for America’s Desert Cities?

    By Saritha Ramakrishna  July 25, 2018
    Excerpts

    Like Most Americans, I Was Raised to Be A White Man

    By Onnesha Roychoudhuri  July 24, 2018
    Excerpts

    Everything You Think You Know About Chekhov is Wrong

    By Boris Fishman  July 23, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Fake News, Hyper-Patriotism, and War: America in 1918

    By John Domini  July 23, 2018
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    Inside the Slow-Motion Disaster on the Southern Border

    By Laura Tillman  July 20, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Toward a Theory of Radical Corniness

    By Eric Thurm  July 20, 2018
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    “We Have A Gay Bar Here.” You Don’t Need A Coast to Be Cosmopolitan

    By Greggor Mattson and Tory Sparks  July 19, 2018
    Deep Dive

    My Book of Men: On the Poetry of Survival

    By Liz Bowen  July 18, 2018
    Expert opinion

    Don’t Take a Free Press for Granted: The Best Journalism in Latin America

    By Valeria Luiselli  July 18, 2018
    Essay

    Rebecca Solnit: They Think They Can Bully the Truth

    By Rebecca Solnit  July 17, 2018
    Feature

    Scenes from the Southern Border: Asylum-Seekers, Border Guards, Activists and More

    By Laura Tillman  July 17, 2018
    Excerpts

    If Watergate Happened Now, It Would Stay a Secret

    By Seymour M. Hersh  July 13, 2018
    Criticism

    Does The Handmaid’s Tale Want Us to Empathize with Ivanka Trump?

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  July 12, 2018
    Essay

    A Literal Hell Constructed for Children: Dina Nayeri on Family Separation

    By Dina Nayeri  July 11, 2018
    Essay

    Combating the System (and Writerly Loneliness) with a Collective

    By Ben Clague  July 11, 2018
    Essay

    Why I Became an Abortion Clinic Escort at 50

    By Wendy Rawlings  July 11, 2018
    Essay

    Why I Added, Then Deleted, Trump from My Novel

    By Andrew Martin  July 10, 2018
    News and Culture

    Nadifa Mohamed: My Life at Oxford’s Last All-Women College

    By Nadifa Mohamed  July 9, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Empress Nur Jahan and the Politics of Erasure in Modern India

    By Ruby Lal  July 5, 2018
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    What Can We Learn from the Radical Campuses of 1968?

    By Richard Vinen  July 3, 2018
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