• Politics

    Moral Panics

    On “White Slavery” and the Roots of the Contemporary Sex Trafficking Panic

    By Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam  December 12, 2024
    Monuments

    Archaeology or Exclusion? Brandon Shimoda on Saving a Japanese American WWII Monument

    By Brandon Shimoda  December 11, 2024
    Reading Habits

    Luigi is Currently Reading:
    What Can We Really Learn About the UHC CEO’s Alleged Killer Based on the Books He’s Read?

    By James Folta  December 10, 2024
    Speculative fiction

    China Miéville’s 2009 The City & The City Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

    By Tobias Carroll  December 10, 2024
    The Hub

    Don’t cross the Strand Workers Union picket line!

    By James Folta  December 9, 2024
    Cultural History

    Dark Futures: How the European Dream of Modernization Ended in Totalitarian Despair

    By Glenn Adamson  December 6, 2024
    Book Bans

    Jacqueline Woodson on Navigating Book Bans and Staying Resilient in 2025

    By Brittany Allen  December 4, 2024
    The Hub

    A little treat for Caro-heads: Bryan Cranston reads from The Power Broker.

    By James Folta  December 3, 2024
    AIDS

    On World AIDS Day What Does It Mean to Live in a Culture Defined By Virality?

    By Heather McCalden  December 2, 2024
    The Hub

    Fatale is the French noir novel you need to help you vent your frustrations right now.

    By James Folta  November 26, 2024
    Palestine

    What Young Journalists Can Learn From Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message

    By Aaron Boehmer  November 25, 2024
    Palestine

    On the Enduring Importance of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine

    By Alexander Durie  November 25, 2024
    Gaza

    Read Jody Chan’s Boycott
    Giller Speech

    By Literary Hub  November 22, 2024
    The Hub

    Comedy failed us, again.

    By James Folta  November 21, 2024
    Billionaires

    Billionaires Are Bad: Revisiting 50 Shades of Grey in the Age of Mega-Rich Creepers

    By Maris Kreizman  November 21, 2024
    2024 Election

    On the Fragility of American Democracy… and the Power of Young Black Activists to Save It

    By Rita Omokha  November 21, 2024
    Trump Administration

    I read the government graphic novels Elon Musk thinks are a waste of money.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 18, 2024
    AI

    HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.

    By Drew Broussard  November 18, 2024
    The Royal Family

    Victoria’s Secret: How a Teenage Girl Became the Queen of England

    By Anne Somerset  November 18, 2024
    The Hub

    Is Donald Trump going to sue the media into complicity and silence?

    By Jonny Diamond  November 15, 2024
    Being Trans

    Waking Up Trans in Trump’s America

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 15, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Sleuthing Around at an Actual Nancy Drew Convention

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   November 15, 2024
    The Hub

    The Onion has bought InfoWars. (And no, this isn’t a joke.)

    By Brittany Allen  November 14, 2024
    The Hub

    Want to know how libraries fared on the ballot? This cool non-profit made a chart.

    By Brittany Allen  November 13, 2024
    MAGA

    Per his own book, Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee is down for Civil War II

    By Jonny Diamond  November 13, 2024
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