• Politics

    American Revolution

    Inventing the American Revolution: On Thomas Paine’s Guide to Fighting Dictatorship

    “How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.”

     
    By Matthew Redmond  August 13, 2025
    Sexuality

    How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America

    By Margaret Grace Myers  August 13, 2025
    Ukraine

    “Literature is a Force For Peace and Solidarity.” On Writing a Novel of the War in Ukraine

    By Sam Wachman  August 13, 2025
    The Hub

    The Associated Press is ending its regular book coverage.

    By Brittany Allen  August 12, 2025
    The Hub

    Award-winning poet Alice Oswald was arrested for supporting Palestine Action.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 11, 2025
    The Hub

    Read the final message sent by murdered Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 11, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Health

    The Value of Women’s Lives: How Abortion Bans Escalate Domestic Violence

    By Kylie Cheung  August 11, 2025
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  August 8, 2025
    Climate Change

    Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

    By Sam Bloch  August 8, 2025
    Gaza

    The View From Gaza—As Seen Through WB Yeats’s Widening Gyre

    From Inside the Besieged Strip, Alaa Alqaisi on Life as a “Sustained Dismantling of the Soul”

    By Alaa Alqaisi  August 13, 2025
    Sociology

    After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

    By Dean Spears and Michael Geruso  August 8, 2025
    The Hub

    What the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting means for Viewers Like You.

    By Brittany Allen  August 7, 2025
    Slavery

    Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

    By Princess Joy L. Perry  August 7, 2025
    Small Presses

    On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos

    Elizabeth Cook Breaks Down the “Uncertainty, Disrespect, and Bullying” of the Federal Government

    By Elizabeth Kaye Cook  August 6, 2025
    The Hub

    Get ready for too many books by right-wing Justices.

    By James Folta  August 5, 2025
    The Hub

    One small thing to do today: Pressure mainstream media to cover the Gaza famine.

    By Brittany Allen  August 5, 2025
    The Hub

    Israel’s most famous novelist says his country is committing genocide.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 1, 2025
    Memoir

    On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

    Meg Pillow Unpacks an Archetype and Tells Her Own Story

    By Meg Pillow  July 31, 2025
    The Hub

    Why you should read Howard Zinn’s Artists in Times of War now.

    By James Folta  July 30, 2025
    literary criticism

    “If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

    By Philip Metres  July 30, 2025
    Book News

    An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2025
    The Hub

    “Where is my antisemitism money?”: A Columbia professor’s letter to the university president.

    By James Schamus  July 28, 2025
    Identity

    Una Cultura en Juego: Identity, Erasure and Language in America Today

    By Natalie Guerrero  July 28, 2025
    On Poetry

    Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

    By Literary Hub  July 28, 2025
    Jane Austen

    How Would Jane Austen Define an “Accomplished Woman” Today?

    By Grace Aldridge  August 8, 2025
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