• Politics

    Keen On

    Joanna Chiu on the Human Cost of China’s Growth

    By Keen On  November 2, 2021
    Nonfiction

    The Best New Nonfiction to Read This November

    By Literary Hub  November 1, 2021
    American Presidents

    How Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams Helped Launch the Progressive Party

    By Neil Lanctot  November 1, 2021
    Keen On

    Peter T. Coleman on Life Beyond Trivial Divisions

    By Keen On  November 1, 2021
    Keen On

    Ian Rosenberg on Understanding Contemporary Free Speech Issues in America

    By Keen On  October 29, 2021
    Misinformation

    The Call is Coming From Inside the House: On Fighting Disinformation

    By Nina Jankowicz  October 28, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Novels and the News: Amitava Kumar with Robert Boynton, Francine Prose, and Parul Sehgal

    By The Virtual Book Channel  October 28, 2021
    Abolition

    How the Potter Josiah Wedgwood Created an Iconic Abolitionist Medallion

    By Tristram Hunt  October 28, 2021
    Anger

    On Channeling the Rage of Audre Lorde to Combat Racial Injustice

    By Myisha Cherry  October 28, 2021
    War

    5 Important Books That Reveal the Human Cost of War

    By Janine di Giovanni  October 28, 2021
    In Conversation

    A Year Later: Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel Reflect on Political Radicalism, Inventive Aesthetics, and the Publication of Their Anthology

    By Peter Mishler  October 28, 2021
    Counterculture

    “We Were Alive and Life Was Us.” How Ken Kesey Created LSD Subculture

    By Kevin Boyle  October 27, 2021
    Thresholds

    Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Growing Up in the Socialist Workers Party

    By Thresholds   October 27, 2021
    The Hub

    Beloved is now a detail in the Virginia election—for the dumbest possible reason.

    By Walker Caplan  October 26, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here Are October’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

    By Book Marks  October 26, 2021
    The Hub

    A new study shows that UK school libraries are still very, very white.

    By Walker Caplan  October 25, 2021
    Exile

    Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait

    By Mona Kareem  October 25, 2021
    The Hub

    Ursula K. Le Guin always wanted Powell’s Books to be a proud union shop.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 22, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 21, 2021
    Culture Wars

    How Nostalgia Can Hide Dark Political Realities

    By Andrew Potter  October 21, 2021
    Afghanistan

    Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

    By Taran Khan  October 21, 2021
    Teaching Through a Pandemic

    Rethinking Preschool in a Pandemic Teacher Shortage

    By Dayneé Alejandra Rosales  October 21, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Robert Draper on the Smoldering Wreck of Foreign Policy Still Alive Today

    By Just the Right Book   October 21, 2021
    Crime

    Politicians Love Punishment—But Does It Actually Reduce Crime?

    By Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine  October 21, 2021
    Imprisoned Writers

    Chris Hedges on Teaching Playwriting in Prison

    By Chris Hedges  October 21, 2021
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