January 29, 2024
On January 27, 1945, the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau were opened by the Soldiers of the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front, and approximately 7,000 people were liberated. 79 years… READ MORE
January 23, 2024
By Jennifer Frost In the November 2023 elections, the youth vote was a deciding factor in key state races and referenda, such as Ohio’s Issue 1 to protect a woman’s… READ MORE
January 16, 2024
For over a decade, I have had a “Google Alert” on my phone for the terms “jury duty” and “jury service.” This means that I have reviewed every news article… READ MORE
January 15, 2024
Jonathan Eig on the Early Civil Rights Movement and the Making of “Alabama’s Gandhi” By Jonathan EigReposted from Literary Hub Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the porch of his tiny… READ MORE
January 11, 2024
Introduction: To the Reader, from Joey This is adapted from a discussion between Jonathan Safran Foer and myself that took place in January 2022. Because of the conversational nature of… READ MORE
January 8, 2024
Ralph Young The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfullyrebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemywho, under the specious . . . garb of patriotism… READ MORE
December 1, 2023
By SunAh M Laybourn You’ve seen the photos: a young child holds a sign stating the number of days they were in foster care and triumphantly declaring that today is… READ MORE
November 16, 2023
by Lisandro Pérez On October 14, 2023, only four days after the official release date of my book, The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga, I presented it… READ MORE
October 31, 2023
As literature professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen wrote in his seminal tract, Monster Culture: Seven Theses, “The monster dwells at the gates of difference… Any kind of alterity can be inscribed… READ MORE
October 27, 2023
by David L. Wilson There’s been a lot of talk in the past few years about a so-called “border crisis”—that is, a recent increase in migrants entering the United States… READ MORE
Six Classics of Queer Literature