We Used to Read Things in This Country
The history of literacy is the history of class struggle.
Salvos
From the Magazine
Speak and Sell
Screens become parents to us all.
American Gothics
Surveying the literature of the Trumpocene.
Belittled Magazine
Were we fighting the power, or were we an institutional part of it?
Manual Labor
A new generation of deaf writers reimagines language, text, and sound.
The World’s Memory of the World
Disco Elysium's word-drunk profusion of excess and outrage.
Stop the Presses
Two and a half years is a long time to be on strike.
Dilemma in Denver
Did Biden abandon a city and its migrants?
Battle of the Sexes
Pete Hegseth’s long-running war against women—inside the military and out.
The NAFTA Novel
The postnational literature these writers produced was not a roadmap to a more just future.
Home City, USA
From the perspective of some Haitians, their efforts to resuscitate Springfield are being repaid with hate.
Blood Complicated
Retelling, revising, and reassessing the Hatfield-McCoy feud.