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After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

“I’m hoping against hope—but I won’t stop believing—I’ll even pray that, after Apalachee, everything will become different.”

By Deirdre Sugiuchi | September 24, 2024

How Jack London Foresaw the Anti-Democratic Future With <em>The Iron Heel</em>

How Jack London Foresaw the Anti-Democratic Future With The Iron Heel

Ken McGoogan on the Dangers of Oligarchic Totalitarian Rule in Fiction and in Real Life

By Ken McGoogan | September 23, 2024

Lifeline, Cash-Grab, Tool for Censorship: Three Incarcerated Readers on eBooks in Prison

Lifeline, Cash-Grab, Tool for Censorship: Three Incarcerated Readers on eBooks in Prison

“Access to reading materials is being stymied via policies that claim security.”

By Literary Hub | September 20, 2024

The Best Books for Understanding the Far Right “Constitutional Sheriff” Movement

The Best Books for Understanding the Far Right “Constitutional Sheriff” Movement

Jessica Pishko Recommends 11 Essential Works on Extremism

By Jessica Pishko | September 19, 2024

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

David Browne on Max Gordon, Prohibition, and the Transformative Creation of the Village Vanguard

By David Browne | September 18, 2024

Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America By Surprise

Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America By Surprise

What Freedom Means in Moments of Economic and Political Transformation

By Timothy Snyder | September 17, 2024

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False Profits: Why I Am Not Teaching in the Classroom This Fall

By Steven W. Thrasher | September 16, 2024

Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

By Richard Flanagan | September 16, 2024

Oxford University Press USA Guild is protesting the firing of 13 unionized staffers.

By James Folta | September 13, 2024

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

Ben Ehrenreich on the Riots of Northern England, Then and Now

By Ben Ehrenreich | September 13, 2024

The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

From Dylan C. Penningroth Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Before the Movement”

By Dylan C. Penningroth | September 13, 2024

Thomas Frank on How the Harris-Walz Ticket Can Win Red State Voters

Thomas Frank on How the Harris-Walz Ticket Can Win Red State Voters

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell on “Fiction/Non/Fiction”

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 12, 2024

More Guns, More Money: How America Turned Weapons Into a Consumer Commodity

More Guns, More Money: How America Turned Weapons Into a Consumer Commodity

From Andrew C. McKevitt's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Gun Country”

By Andrew C. McKevitt | September 12, 2024

When Threats of Violence Come to University Libraries

When Threats of Violence Come to University Libraries

Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Impact of Bomb Threats and the Rhetoric of School Shooters

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | September 11, 2024

Crip-Walking at the Commencement: Jerald Walker on the Shifting Significance of Black Gestures

Crip-Walking at the Commencement: Jerald Walker on the Shifting Significance of Black Gestures

The Author of “Magically Black and Other Essays” Reflects on Serena Williams, Gang Signs, and “Scaring the White Folks”

By Jerald Walker | September 10, 2024

American universities continue to punish pro-Palestinian speech.

American universities continue to punish pro-Palestinian speech.

By Brittany Allen | September 9, 2024

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