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Truong Tran on Channeling the Violence of White Supremacy Into Art

Truong Tran on Channeling the Violence of White Supremacy Into Art

“This violence at best is metaphorical violence. It’s art. What is a metaphor when in reality?”

By Truong Tran | October 21, 2026

What’s In a Name? Leise Hook on What Her American and Chinese Names Reveal About Herself

What’s In a Name? Leise Hook on What Her American and Chinese Names Reveal About Herself

From the Graphic Memoir Names and Faces

By Leise Hook | April 17, 2026

The Poetics of Repetition: In Praise of the Art of Replication

The Poetics of Repetition: In Praise of the Art of Replication

Lisa Low: “Poetry reminds me that repetition is evidence of life, and a way to see life differently.”

By Lisa Low | April 7, 2026

Rebecca Solnit, Vigdis Hjorth, Terry Tempest Williams, and more: 23 new books out today!

Rebecca Solnit, Vigdis Hjorth, Terry Tempest Williams, and more: 23 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | March 3, 2026

How Gerrymandering Helps Republicans Maintain Power in Texas and Georgia

How Gerrymandering Helps Republicans Maintain Power in Texas and Georgia

Anjali Enjeti on the Systematic Dismantlement of Multiracial Voting Coalitions Across the Country

By Anjali Enjeti | February 9, 2026

Can Zohran Mamdani Survive at the Intersection of Identity Politics and Democratic Socialism?

Can Zohran Mamdani Survive at the Intersection of Identity Politics and Democratic Socialism?

Mychal Denzel Smith on the New Mayor’s Uncertain Relationship With New York’s Black Voters

By Mychal Denzel Smith | February 5, 2026

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How W.E.B. DuBois and James McCune Smith Helped Combat Medical Racism in America

By Michelle A. Williams | February 4, 2026

“My Legacy is of Broken Men.” Michael Thomas on Dreams, Alcoholism, and Black Fatherhood

By Michael Thomas | August 14, 2025

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

By Princess Joy L. Perry | August 7, 2025

How Witi Ihimaera’s <em>The Whale Rider</em> Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

How Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

Shilo Kino on the Novel That Represented and Reconnected New Zealand’s Indigenous People

By Shilo Kino | August 4, 2025

The Tale of Elaine Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp

The Tale of Elaine Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp

Tracy Slater on the Strange Fate of Mixed-Race Families in Prisons During World War II

By Tracy Slater | July 10, 2025

How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

Lauren O'Neill Butler on Shotgun Houses, Segregation, and the Art of Rick Lowe and John Biggers

By Lauren O'Neill Butler | July 2, 2025

Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression

Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression

The Author of “Everything Is Fine Here” Recalls a Seminal “This American Life” Episode

By Iryn Tushabe | June 13, 2025

On Reimagining <em>The Great Gatsby</em> as a Black American Story

On Reimagining The Great Gatsby as a Black American Story

Kyra Davis Lurie Explores Adaptations, Sugar Hill, and Fitzgerald’s Racism

By Kyra Davis Lurie | June 11, 2025

Bad Curls, Bad Character: <br>The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Bad Curls, Bad Character:
The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Sarah Gold McBride on Race in the United States, Tresses as Culture, and the Field of “Whiskerology”

By Sarah Gold McBride | June 9, 2025

States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

Brando Simeo Starkey on the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, Racism, and Federal Power

By Brando Simeo Starkey | June 5, 2025

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