• Politics

    Life in a Pandemic

    Writing a History of a Pandemic During a Pandemic

    By Jon Sternfeld  September 22, 2020
    The Hub

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg on how Vladimir Nabokov influenced her writing.

    By Emily Temple  September 21, 2020
    Justice

    To Make Light From Pain: Mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    By Lynn Steger Strong  September 21, 2020
    Underreported

    Everybody’s a Socialist. What Happened?

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  September 21, 2020
    Nazi Germany

    Indifference and Cruelty: What Made Nazi Germany Possible

    By Géraldine Schwarz  September 21, 2020
    Criticism

    The Best War Narratives Go Beyond Brute Force

    By Kerry Greenwood  September 21, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Language Keepers: On the Fight to Save the Karuk Language

    By Emergence Magazine  September 21, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Ayad Akhtar on Why Literature Isn’t Just a ‘Bleeding-Heart Liberal’ Preoccupation

    By The Literary Life  September 18, 2020
    Democracy

    Can America’s Governors Save Our System of Democracy?

    By Saladin Ambar  September 18, 2020
    Energy

    ‘We’re Looking at a New Cold War’: A Conversation with Daniel Yergin

    By Bill Cohan  September 18, 2020
    New Books Network

    Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

    By New Books Network  September 18, 2020
    Teaching

    On Creating Family in the Poetry Classroom

    By Literary Hub  September 18, 2020
    Keen On

    Following the Dirty Money That Floods the Global Economy

    By Keen On  September 18, 2020
    Letters Home

    Letter from Seattle: A Season of Peaceful Protest

    By Claudia Castro Luna  September 17, 2020
    Conservatism

    President Lincoln’s Republican Party Was the Original Party of Big Government

    By Peter Balakian  September 17, 2020
    Keen On

    In Defense of Looting? Or Against Nonviolence?

    By Keen On  September 17, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Gary Hart on the Secret Emergency Powers of the President

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 17, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Has America Ever Had a Unified Vision of Itself?

    By Just the Right Book   September 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Putting the Logic Back in to Political Arguments

    By New Books Network  September 17, 2020
    Climate Activism

    Privatizing the Common Good: The 21st-Century Enclosures Are Here

    By Ashley Dawson  September 16, 2020
    Refugees

    Finding Strange Magic and Unlikely Love During the Vietnam War

    By Lan Cao  September 16, 2020
    TV

    The Wire and Other Baltimore Shows Are Great TV, But There Are Reasons to be Wary

    By Mary Rizzo  September 16, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    “Sarah,” an NYC Nurse, on the Anger of Being Unprepared for COVID-19

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 16, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Political Implications of Anti-Latinx Racism

    By New Books Network  September 16, 2020
    The Hub

    The Literary Arts Emergency Fund will award 3.5 million to 282 literary organizations this year.

    By Rasheeda Saka  September 15, 2020
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