• Politics

    Palestine

    James Baldwin and the Roots of Black-Palestinian Solidarity

    By Alexander Durie  August 2, 2024
    Twitterverse

    10 reasons to love James Baldwin, in honor of his 100th birthday.

    By Brittany Allen  August 2, 2024
    American Icons

    A Century of James Baldwin

    By Literary Hub  August 2, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Falling in Love With Life

    By Talk Easy  August 1, 2024
    Asian American Literature

    Our “Long-Living Badasses.” Why So Much Asian American Fiction Focuses on Grandparents

    By Soma Mei Sheng Frazier  July 31, 2024
    Feminist History

    A Feminist Oral History of the 1972 Democratic National Convention

    By Clara Bingham  July 30, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    From Senegal to the Virgin Islands: The Weirdness of Having Fun While Writing About Historical Trauma

    By Mai Sennaar  July 30, 2024
    Literary Colonialism

    The New York Times’ “Best Books of the Century” List Was an Unforgivable Erasure of African Literature

    By Ainehi Edoro-Glines  July 26, 2024
    Animals

    All Living Creatures: Do Animals Deserve Political Rights and Representation?

    By Brandon Keim  July 23, 2024
    Free Speech

    The Cofounder of Guernica on Free Speech and the Retraction of the Israel-Gaza Essay

    By Michael Archer  July 22, 2024
    Sci-Fi

    On the Simple Prophecy of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower

    By Roz Dineen  July 22, 2024
    On Teaching

    A Better Way to Teach History: On Adapting James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me”

    By Nate Powell  July 22, 2024
    Sectarianism

    From Dream to Nightmare: On the Deadly Manifestations of Religious Hatred in India

    By Zara Chowdhary  July 22, 2024
    The Hub

    Florida’s Commissioner of Education thinks Jane Austen was an American.

    By James Folta  July 19, 2024
    Presidential Campaign 2024

    Joe Biden’s Gaza Problem: It’s Not Just the Pundit Class That Wants Him Gone

    By Dan Sheehan  July 19, 2024
    The Judiciary

    What the Gradual Corporate Capture of the Supreme Court Means For Democracy

    By Sheldon Whitehouse and Jennifer Mueller  July 19, 2024
    Women's Bodies

    How America’s Sex Education—and Oversexed Culture—Continues to Fail Women

    By Natalie Lampert  July 19, 2024
    Presidential Campaign 2024

    JD Vance is the Toxic Byproduct of America’s Obsession with Bootstrap Narratives

    By Alissa Quart  July 18, 2024
    Presidential Campaign 2024

    Rebecca Solnit: It’s the Pundits Who Have Turned on Biden, Not the Party

    By Rebecca Solnit  July 16, 2024
    Extremism

    “Weaponized Autism.” Shame, Pride, and the Making and Undoing of the Alt-Right

    By Elle Reeve  July 15, 2024
    Criminal Justice

    Leveling the Legal Playing Field: Why Everyone Deserves Their Day in Court

    By Abbe Smith  July 12, 2024
    The Hub

    Americans’ confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive.

    By Brittany Allen  July 11, 2024
    The Hub

    20 Canadian authors have withdrawn from the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 10, 2024
    Irish Literature

    Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

    By Jan Carson  July 10, 2024
    Publishing

    If You’re Going to Platform Extremists You Should At Least Check Their Facts

    By Maris Kreizman  July 9, 2024
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