In this episode, novelist Imbolo Mbue and critic Sarah Dimick dive into the literary ecosystem from an author’s perspective.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The first part of Stefano Gualeni’s What We Owe the Dead is a fictional police report, drafted in a dystopian future in which humans live within inhabitable cooling mega-siphons built to counteract ...

What, almost 15 years after it was a set text on an undergraduate French literature syllabus, still drew me to “The Lover?” I put this question to a group of other writers.

Joshua Sooter, formerly of New York University, is an independent scholar and community activist. He lives between California and New York City and, when not teaching and working as a freelance ...