July 1, 2024
Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son, eludes easy categorization. In Bigger: A Literary Life, Trudier Harris examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence… READ MORE
June 27, 2024
Alan Mikhail— Between the street and the building was a large black wrought-iron fence. On the inside of this one of Egypt’s millions of border markers, two paths led into… READ MORE
June 26, 2024
Evan Mawdsley— Sea power is back in the news. In April 2022, the cruiser Moskva was sunk by Ukrainian anti-ship missiles. Since last November, American and British warships have actively… READ MORE
June 25, 2024
Mary L. Shannon— How do you tell the story of unrecorded Black lives in early New York City? This was the problem confronting me when I tried to uncover the… READ MORE
June 21, 2024
Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Glück as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Siken’s Crush is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and… READ MORE
June 18, 2024
The Year of Blue Water is the winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize and the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards finalist for the transgender poetry category. Between… READ MORE
June 17, 2024
Harold Hongju Koh— If re-elected, could President Trump, by a single tweet, withdraw America from the United Nations, NATO, and every treaty and international organization to which the U.S. belongs?… READ MORE
June 14, 2024
It may be a bit of mystery why we care so much about Roe. The Court has issued other blockbuster opinions, and they have mostly faded into obscurity. Debates about… READ MORE
June 13, 2024
Fritz Horstman, the education director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, talks us through some of the ideas in his new book, Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to… READ MORE
June 11, 2024
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 is a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question… READ MORE
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life