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If I Was a Rich Girl, I’d Have All the Cover in the World: The Real Mean Girls of Classic Literature

If I Was a Rich Girl, I’d Have All the Cover in the World: The Real Mean Girls of Classic Literature

Sanibel on Social Class, Undine Spragg, Becky Sharp, and Who Society Punishes in Art and Life

By Sanibel | April 15, 2025

How a Legacy of Poverty and Systematic Exclusion Created “White Trash” in America

How a Legacy of Poverty and Systematic Exclusion Created “White Trash” in America

Jaydra Johnson on the Intersections of Literature, Classism and Family History

By Jaydra Johnson | November 8, 2024

What Working Minimum-Wage Jobs Taught Me About Writing Novels

What Working Minimum-Wage Jobs Taught Me About Writing Novels

Joanne McNeil on Patricia Highsmith, Classism, and Finding Raw Material in Staff Workrooms

By Joanne McNeil | November 14, 2023

Reefer Madness: How Did We End Up with the Lazy Stoner Stereotype?

Reefer Madness: How Did We End Up with the Lazy Stoner Stereotype?

Josiah Hesse on the Racialized, Politicized History of Cannabis and the Fear-Mongering Agenda of Past Presidential Administrations

By Josiah Hesse | September 23, 2021

How I Survived a Racialized Pregnancy in the American Healthcare System

How I Survived a Racialized Pregnancy in the American Healthcare System

Savala Nolan on the Medical Field’s Cruel Indifference to Black Mothers

By Savala Nolan | July 13, 2021

Five Surprising Things I Learned from Partying with Rich People

Five Surprising Things I Learned from Partying with Rich People

Sociologist Ashley Mears on Extravagant Wealth

By Ashley Mears | May 22, 2020

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Who Gets to Write About Gentrification?

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By Naima Coster | January 16, 2018

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Our Tonya: Growing Up in Thrall to an American Antiheroine

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By Tracy O'Neill | December 14, 2017

Édouard Louis on Class, Violence, and Literature as a Space of Resistance

Édouard Louis on Class, Violence, and Literature as a Space of Resistance

"When violence is part of your daily rhythm, you end up believing it’s normal"

By Monika Zaleska | May 8, 2017

The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

And the Recent Movement to Restore its Place in the Canon

By Amanda Arnold | May 1, 2017

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Writers Resist: In Pursuit of Wild Hope

VOICES OF DISSENT ON MLK'S BIRTHDAY

By Literary Hub | January 13, 2017

How Writing About Pit Bulls Led to Death Threats, Online and IRL

How Writing About Pit Bulls Led to Death Threats, Online and IRL

On the Firestorm Around Bronwen Dickey's New Book

By Melissa Holbrook Pierson | June 24, 2016

America Was Never Class-Free

America Was Never Class-Free

On Foundational Myths and Deep-Rooted Inequality

By Nancy Isenberg | June 21, 2016