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Internal Emails Reveal Columbia’s “Task Force on Antisemitism” is Causing...
Over the past four months, senior administrators at New York City’s Columbia University have found themselves at odds with a significant contingent of their faculty and student body over protests...
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As Journalists Are Murdered in Gaza Their Counterparts Lose Jobs in America
Last week, it felt like 90 percent of my social media timelines were filled with accounts of Palestinian journalists losing their lives in Gaza or of American journalists losing their jobs in the...
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From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a...
The highway to Silverton, Colorado, is an ear-popping ascent with hairpin turns and missing guardrails. Dad hugged the mountainside with the van as we climbed, tapping his horn before each blind curve...
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Adoption, Abortion, Autonomy: On the Literature of Reproductive Justice
I began my research for Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood in 2010, I was a doctoral student who had little suspicion that my research would turn into a...
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There Are Bigger Problems in the World Than “Antisemitic...
On February 14, the Jewish Book Council announced an initiative “for authors, publishers, publicists, agents, editors, and readers to report antisemitic literary-related incidents.”...
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Imagining a World Where Anti-Colonial Fantasy Lit Is the Norm, Not the Exception
In elementary school, when it was my class’ turn to attend the Scholastic Book Fair, I would leap out of my seat and run to the front of the room to claim that first spot in line, leg bouncing wildly...
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Literary Hub is Seeking a Regular, Part-Time Writer
This is a remote, contract writing position. The writer will be responsible for researching, pitching, planning, and writing engaging, concise, voice-driven blog posts for The Hub on a daily basis....
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Why Voting in The Oscars (and in Politics) Is Broken, and How to Fix Both
The 2021 Academy Awards ceremony was a big event in my house. A childhood friend of mine, Jasmila Žbanić, was up for an Oscar in the foreign film category. She was the director of Quo vadis, Aida?, a...
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Emily Raboteau and Sarah Viren on Climate Change, Birding, and Social Justice
The best essayists allow us to think more clearly but also more compassionately. Emily Raboteau is one of those essayists. Her writing on climate change over the past few years has helped me think...
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Too Little, Too Late: On American Media Executives’ Hypocritical Support of...
When it comes to righteous causes, I generally believe it is important to leave space for people to have an onramp to join at any time. If someone has not been actively supporting campaigns against...
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