• News and Culture

    Antifascism

    Laughing At Evil: When Charlie Chaplin Brought Hitler to the Big Screen

    By Scott Eyman  November 3, 2023
    Hollywood

    How 1950s Hollywood Tried (and Failed) to Make Literary Adaptations Big

    By Foster Hirsch  November 3, 2023
    Long Lost Writers

    Everything You Need to Know About Groundbreaking Queer Feminist Science Fiction Writer Joanna Russ

    By Jon Michaud  November 3, 2023
    Photography

    Capturing Process and Industry in America: On the Photography of Christopher Payne

    By Kathy Ryan  November 3, 2023
    What to Watch

    We Almost Got a Superhero Movie from The Exorcist Director William Friedkin

    By Paul Morton  November 3, 2023
    Open Letter

    Now is a Time to Speak:
    An Open Letter to the 92nd Street Y

    By Literary Hub  November 3, 2023
    The Hub

    In a new Joan Didion biopic, “an AI Joan encounters a dystopia beyond her wildest anxiety dreams.”

    By Emily Temple  November 2, 2023
    Love and Romance

    Love and Looking: On What We (Don’t) See Together

    By Devorah Baum  November 2, 2023
    Freeman's

    The Call of the Void: Hannah Lillith Assadi on Losing Home, Identity, and Her Father

    By Hannah Lillith Assadi  November 2, 2023
    Languages

    How Ancient and Modern Greek Helps Us Make Sense of Greece Today

    By Nick Romeo  November 2, 2023
    World War II

    Putting the Asian Experience of World War II at Center Stage: A Reading List of Essential Books

    By Gary J. Bass  November 2, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    A Conflagration That Consumes: What One Family Lost to Fire

    By John Vaillant  November 2, 2023
    What to Watch

    Kristen Roupenian and Susanna Fogel on Adapting “Cat Person” for Film

    By Literary Hub  November 2, 2023
    Palestine

    A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation

    By Fady Joudah  November 1, 2023
    On Translation

    Consider the Words: On Translating Infinite Jest into Farsi

    By Moeen Farrokhi  November 1, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence

    “AI, Ain’t I A Woman?” On the Blindness and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence

    By Joy Buolamwini  November 1, 2023
    Early Russian Literature

    How a 17th Century Priest Invented the Russian Novel

    By Irina Zhorov  November 1, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    Six Former Winners of the Cundill History Prize Reflect on What the Future Holds

    By Literary Hub  November 1, 2023
    What to Watch

    What to Read Before and After Seeing Orlando, My Political Biography

    By Literary Hub  November 1, 2023
    The Hub

    Here’s the winner of the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize.

    By Literary Hub  October 31, 2023
    The Hub

    We need more writers to speak out in support of Gaza.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 31, 2023
    Dracula

    Silvia Garcia-Moreno on Dracula’s Depictions and Descendants

    By Silvia Moreno-Garcia  October 31, 2023
    Animals

    The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

    By Justin C Key  October 31, 2023
    Horror

    Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2023
    Horror

    “Leisure, Labor, Reticence, Violence”: What Horror Films Can Teach Us About Poetry

    By Justin Phillip Reed  October 31, 2023
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