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Almost Home

by Tema Stauffer, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers,

White Rapture

From Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir, which will be published this month by Pantheon. I started teaching women writers in the early Nineties. When I thought about my own…

Another Land

by Lawrence Jackson,

From Shelter, a memoir, which will be published this month by Graywolf Press. I plotted my return to Baltimore the day after the heaviest snowfall in a decade, a bright…

Separate and Unequal

by Adolph Reed Jr.,

From The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives, which will be published this month by Verso. The everyday life of the segregation era is not much discussed outside academia. More…

Continental Divide

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Decades ago, my father implored me to get acquainted with James Baldwin. As is often the case with such parental injunctions, I ignored him for a long time, but once…

Unending Struggle

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

In 1974, a pair of scientists who would go on to win the Nobel Prize published a paper demonstrating that the chlorofluorocarbons used in aerosol sprays and refrigerators were harming…

History As End

by Matthew Karp,

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past

Civil Warning

by Elliot Ackerman,

Are we living through another antebellum era?

Shades of Blue

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Late on election night, when the betting markets were just realizing that Trump’s path to victory had narrowed, and leading voices on the left were lamenting the failure of anything…

The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere

by Fred Bahnson,

Among the contemplatives

The Silenced Majority

by Rana Dasgupta,

Can America still afford democracy?

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Almost Home

White Rapture

Another Land

Separate and Unequal

Continental Divide

Unending Struggle

History As End

Civil Warning

Shades of Blue

The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere

The Silenced Majority

December 2020

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