September 10, 2025
- The myth of scientific objectivity
- Nicholás Medina Mora on Mexican fiction, made in America
- How a county in Oregon failed its public library
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RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal
"The god of the camera is a colonizer but a cul-de-sac history of exploitation is held in black skin.”
In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves
Gabrielle Bellot on the Radical Power of Words As Weapons
How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir’s Art and Thought
Annabel Abbs-Streets on the Idiosyncratic Way the Beauvoirs Hiked Through the World
Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?
Rebecca Romney on Unearthing a Legacy of Systematic Literary Erasure
How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel
Elyse Durham on Sergei Bondarchuk’s Seven-Hour Cinematic Classic
Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring
Nick Newman Considers the Act of Writing as a Form of (Game) Play
How the Pilgrims Redefined What It Means to Move Across the World
Yoni Appelbaum Explores the Puritan Origins of Modern Ideas About Migration
What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing
Emily J. Smith: “If my voice was anything, it was the shadow of his.”
Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures
The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson
Remembering David Ruggles, the radical abolitionist who opened the first Black-owned bookstore.
A Black History month reflection.
Jane Austen’s Many Literary Afterlives:
A Reading List
Rebecca Romney Recommends Edith Wharton, Vanessa Riley, Karen Joy Fowler and More
Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan
Haley Mlotek Explores the Tension Between the Political and the Personal For the Author of “The Feminine Mystique”
How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment
Leaning Into the Death of Lean-In Feminism and Its Many Resurrections in Our Conflicted Zeitgeist
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