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Brandon Taylor, Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, and more: 27 new books out today!

Brandon Taylor, Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, and more: 27 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 14, 2025

Why We Write the Extra Details

Why We Write the Extra Details

Kate Cayley on the Intersection of Politics, Art, and the Private Self

By Kate Cayley | October 7, 2025

The Paddystinians of Belfast: On the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Northern Ireland

The Paddystinians of Belfast: On the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Northern Ireland

Philip Metres Examines the Close Bonds of Occupation

By Philip Metres | August 27, 2025

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

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

Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

The Author of “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home” in Conversation With Sahar Delijani

By Sahar Delijani | July 17, 2025

Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

The Author of “Self-driving” in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | December 17, 2024

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Must the Professor Crusade? W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Black Writing and Black Resistance

By W. Ralph Eubanks | November 12, 2024

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By Rebecca Solnit | May 31, 2024

Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

By Sahar Delijani | January 23, 2024

How World War II Pacifists Laid the Foundation for Future Struggles

How World War II Pacifists Laid the Foundation for Future Struggles

Daniel Akst on the Unconventional Origins of the Modern Antiwar Movement

By Daniel Akst | December 21, 2022

Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

Eve Fairbanks Recommends Claudia Rankine, Svetlana Alexeivich, and More

By Eve Fairbanks | July 28, 2022

How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

Damien Lewis on an American Icon's Transformation from Dancer to Spy

By Damien Lewis | July 13, 2022

The Creative Rebellion of Black Liberated Life: A Reading List for Juneteenth

The Creative Rebellion of Black Liberated Life: A Reading List for Juneteenth

Kris Manjapra on Ross Gay, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, and More

By Kris Manjapra | June 20, 2022

It’s Harder to Break a Circle Than a Line: Anwen Crawford on Art and Acts of Resistance

It’s Harder to Break a Circle Than a Line: Anwen Crawford on Art and Acts of Resistance

But what if the problem, I said, is capitalism?”">“But what if the problem, I said, is capitalism?”

By Anwen Crawford | June 13, 2022

How Gender-Mixing Laundry Can Be Revolutionary in Myanmar

How Gender-Mixing Laundry Can Be Revolutionary in Myanmar

Pyae Moe Thet War on the Uses and Appropriations of the Concept of “Hpone”

By Pyae Moe Thet War | May 5, 2022

Ilya Kaminsky on Ukrainian, Russian, and the Language of War

Ilya Kaminsky on Ukrainian, Russian, and the Language of War

“How can one speak about, write about, war?”

By Ilya Kaminsky | February 28, 2022

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