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How a Heart Attack Helped Trymaine Lee Find Meaning in Black Survival

How a Heart Attack Helped Trymaine Lee Find Meaning in Black Survival

“A blood clot and a bullet are very different things. But both have the ability to take and twist a life.”

By Trymaine Lee | September 17, 2025

It Happened Here: Remembering One of America’s First Modern School Shootings, 50 Years Later

It Happened Here: Remembering One of America’s First Modern School Shootings, 50 Years Later

Sally Ventura Tells the Story of 1974’s Olean, New York High School Murders

By Sally Ventura | June 23, 2025

Their Cold, Dead Hands: Is the Only Solution to America’s Gun Problem at the Local Level?

Their Cold, Dead Hands: Is the Only Solution to America’s Gun Problem at the Local Level?

Alex Trimble Young on the Ever Shifting Political Realities Surrounding Gun Violence

By Alex Trimble Young | October 25, 2024

The Issues 2024: On America’s Uniquely Deadly Gun Problem

The Issues 2024: On America’s Uniquely Deadly Gun Problem

How Do We Redress the Violent Legacy of the Second Amendment?

By Literary Hub | October 25, 2024

10 Best Books on Guns in America

10 Best Books on Guns in America

Featuring Andrew C. McKevitt, Charles E. Cobb Jr, Gary Younge, and More

By Catherine Habgood | October 25, 2024

After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

“I’m hoping against hope—but I won’t stop believing—I’ll even pray that, after Apalachee, everything will become different.”

By Deirdre Sugiuchi | September 24, 2024

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On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation

By Steve Edwards | July 14, 2023

Paul Auster: Why Is America the Most Violent Country in the Western World?

By Paul Auster | January 18, 2023

How Long Can the Heart Go On Breaking? Three Poems of Gun Violence in America

By Literary Hub | June 22, 2022

Crypto Crashes, Inflation, Gun-Toting White Nationalists... This is Steve Bannon’s Perfect Storm

Crypto Crashes, Inflation, Gun-Toting White Nationalists... This is Steve Bannon’s Perfect Storm

Andrew Keen on the Fragile State of American Democracy

By Andrew Keen | June 17, 2022

Remembering the Potential and Compassion of a Friend Lost to Gun Violence

Remembering the Potential and Compassion of a Friend Lost to Gun Violence

Will Jawando on the Life and Death of His Friend Kalfani

By Will Jawando | June 17, 2022

When is Enough?">Dear American Gun Owner: <brWhen is Enough?">

When is Enough?">Dear American Gun Owner:
When is Enough?

Brenda Hillman on the Work of Keeping Rage and Sorrow Alive

By Brenda Hillman | May 25, 2022

Personal Loss and Public Grief in the Aftermath of the Las Vegas Shooting

Personal Loss and Public Grief in the Aftermath of the Las Vegas Shooting

John Branch on the Way We Move On Even As We Mourn

By John Branch | June 16, 2021

Senator Chris Murphy on Who's to Blame For Rioting in American Cities

Senator Chris Murphy on Who's to Blame For Rioting in American Cities

Just the Right Book">In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | September 10, 2020

On Writing a Collective Poem in Response to Chicago Gun Violence

On Writing a Collective Poem in Response to Chicago Gun Violence

Thousands of Shootings. 100 Poets. 1 Poem.

By Chris Green | June 16, 2020

A Mother's Survivor's Guilt in the Wake of Sandy Hook

A Mother's Survivor's Guilt in the Wake of Sandy Hook

Carol Ann Davis on the Impossible Task of Moving Beyond Tragedy

By Carol Ann Davis | March 4, 2020

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