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On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

Benjamin Balthaser on Mike Gold, Alexander Bittelman, and the Paradoxes of Left-Wing Zionism

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Apparently, comparing someone's writing to AI is now a

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A book stall in central Gaza is keeping literature alive amidst genocide.

A book stall in central Gaza is keeping literature alive amidst genocide.

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The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

Lida Maxwell on Dorothy Freeman, “Silent Spring,” and Rejecting Heteronormativity

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10 radical works of fiction and nonfiction that inspired Kylie Cheung's book on post-Dobbs violence.

10 radical works of fiction and nonfiction that inspired Kylie Cheung's book on post-Dobbs violence.

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A Literary History of the Billionaire: Villain or Buffoon... Or Both?

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The Tale of Elaine Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp

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Tracy Slater on the Strange Fate of Mixed-Race Families in Prisons During World War II

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A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity.

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How I Survived the Toxic Cult of <em>America’s Next Top Model</em>

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What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

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Peter Balakian on Richard Hofstadter and the Current Assault on Academia

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Surprisingly, the Supreme Court did a good thing for libraries this term.

Surprisingly, the Supreme Court did a good thing for libraries this term.

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Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support.

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