• Politics

    Book Bans

    Censoring Kids’ Worlds: Laurie Hertzel on the Danger of Banning Books for Children

    By Laurie Hertzel  November 20, 2023
    Sex

     Missouri library buys extra copies of “Bang Like a Porn Star” for “research.”

    By Jonny Diamond  November 16, 2023
    Palestinian Literature

    On Literary Empathy and the Performative Reading of Palestinian Authors

    By Etaf Rum  November 16, 2023
    The Hub

    Canada’s Giller Prize event interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 14, 2023
    Palestine

    40 Books to Understand Palestine

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2023
    Libraries

    Sacred Space: Why Libraries Are Essential to Incarcerated Writers

    By Warren Bronson  November 14, 2023
    Alligators

    Beyond the Easy Mythology of “Florida Man” in the Heart of the Everglades

    By Rebecca Renner  November 14, 2023
    Book News

    A Statement of Solidarity With Gaza From More Than 100 Literary Translators

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Shakespeare

    Where Everyone is Hamlet: Staging Shakespeare as Political Resistance in China

    By Vikram Nijhawan  November 13, 2023
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Dissenting in Style: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Collars Became Political Signifiers

    By Elinor Carucci and Sara Bader  November 13, 2023
    Appalachia

    Approaching Social Repair in Appalachian Kentucky

    By Seth D. Kaplan  November 13, 2023
    Keen On

    Ben Austen on the Un-American Injustices of the American Justice System

    By Keen On  November 10, 2023
    Labor

    The Urgent Importance of Making Space for Stories from the Farmworking Community

    By Literary Hub  November 9, 2023
    Feminism

    “It Is Not a Given”: Marcie Bianco Lays Out the Steps to Reclaiming Freedom for Feminism

    By Marcie Bianco  November 9, 2023
    Photography

    What It’s Like Inside Court With Donald Trump

    By Rachel Cobb  November 7, 2023
    Open Letters

    Now is a Time to Speak:
    An Open Letter to the 92nd Street Y

    By Literary Hub  November 3, 2023
    Languages

    How Ancient and Modern Greek Helps Us Make Sense of Greece Today

    By Nick Romeo  November 2, 2023
    World War II

    Putting the Asian Experience of World War II at Center Stage: A Reading List of Essential Books

    By Gary J. Bass  November 2, 2023
    Palestine

    A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation

    By Fady Joudah  November 1, 2023
    Early Russian Literature

    How a 17th Century Priest Invented the Russian Novel

    By Irina Zhorov  November 1, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How the Cultural Revolution Played Society Against Itself

    By Tania Branigan  October 27, 2023
    Puerto Rican Literature

    On Puerto Rican Literature and “Abyssal Exclusion”

    By Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones  October 26, 2023
    Fascism

    What Does “Fascist” Actually Mean?

    By Alberto Toscano  October 25, 2023
    Excerpt

    Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing

    By Dan Sinykin  October 24, 2023
    In Conversation

    Masha Gessen and Nathan Thrall on The Whole Story of Israel and Palestine

    By Literary Hub  October 19, 2023
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