In this episode, novelist Imbolo Mbue and critic Sarah Dimick dive into the literary ecosystem from an author’s perspective. Imbolo recalls her formative experiences in public l ...

In 2006, Riverhead books published Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, by Erik Reece, a version of which had appeared earlier as a folio in Harper’s Magazine. Reece—born in Virginia, ...

In 1975, New York City suffered a financial crisis of epic proportions. A new documentary examines the politics of austerity ...

Sarah Gualtieri speaks with William Lafi Youmans and Jason Osder about their award-winning documentary film, Who Killed Alex Odeh? Released by Watermelon Pictures in 2026, the film reexamines the case ...

Sarah Gualtieri is an award-winning author, teacher and mentor. She is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the ...

A writer and scholar, Gil Z. Hochberg is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and ...

Mila Burns’s “Dictatorship Across Borders” offers a new history of surveillance, repression, and exile in Pinochet’s Chile ...

This April marked the 50th anniversary of the release of the Church Committee Report, a sweeping investigation into abuses by the US intelligence community during the Cold War. Here, I discuss ...

Given Meursault’s unreliable narration and narrative interiority, The Stranger proves challenging to adapt. While the first-person novella suggests Meursault’s attitudes and philosophies brand him the ...

Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the crime of crimes that obligates states to intervene, has taken the lives of large numbers of Palestinian scholars. Many were accomplished academics with long histories of ...