August 18 – 22, 2025
- The pleasures of lap-swimming at a bargain gym in East LA
- Laurie Stone rewatches Paper Moon
- Angelina Mazza makes the case for Goodreads
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Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America
Daniel Tam-Claiborne on Alexander Chee, Jenny Zhang, and Writing Difference Through Dialogue
Why Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life
From Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books, a Podcast Hosted by Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols
On Beauty, Sexual Violence, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Kanako Nishi: "Morrison neither consoled me as a victim, nor condemned me as the perpetrator."
Michael Walzer on the Origins of Political Resentment
From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast
When a Young Malcolm X Addressed a Hartford Housing Project
Bringin the Nation of Islam's Teachings to a Working-Class Community
A Poem by Phillis Wheatley, The First Published African American Poet
Featured in Kevin Young's New Anthology of African American Poetry
The Center of the Universe? Capturing New York City 90s Nightlife
Gabriel Sanchez on Archiving a Party That Never Ended
Why Should We Care About So-Called Genius?
Craig Wright in Conversation with Andrew Keen on
the Keen On Podcast
The Complicated Resistance Efforts of Enslaved Women in the West Indies
Stella Dadzie on a History of Public Revolt and Private Resistance
How Capitalism Shaped Our Modern Image of Dinosaurs
From the Time to Eat the Dogs Podcast with Michael Robinson
In Conversation with Actress and Audiobook Narrator Yetide Badaki
“When words move me, I love to hear them.”
Artist Ramsess on the Circularity of History
From The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber
A Lab of One’s Own by Rita Colwell and Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Read by Jackie Sanders
A Memoir and a Call to Action
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