Last Thursday, Penguin Random House, along with a group of writers, educators, and parents in Iowa, joined the front ranks of the high-stakes election-year issue of book banning. They filed suit in... Read more »
December 4, 2023 • Institute Update Mental health is an essential aspect of overall well-being, and it is important for people of all ages, including teenagers. Unfortunately, there’s still significant stigma surrounding... Read more »
Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature is a digital-born project that seeks to retrace and remap the global story of Palestinian literature in the twentieth century, starting from the... Read more »
The postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely... Read more »
“Since you have been here, I have been building some shanties of houses … and likewise some shanties of chapters and essays,” wrote Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne, in 1851, from his... Read more »
At Public Books, our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is actually on our nightstands? Here we... Read more »
The desert lands now controlled by the United States were cast by early settlers as empty places, a tabula rasa, and as no one’s land, terra nullis. Almost five years ago, when... Read more »
Most nights this summer I became someone else. It was ritual, art: the lights dimmed, Tears of the Kingdom on the screen, my thumbs nudging the sticks on the controller to move... Read more »
On April 20, 1963, Las Servidoras, a Brooklyn-based scholarship-granting organization created by Afro-Caribbean Panamanian women who migrated to New York starting in the late 1940s, celebrated their tenth anniversary. As part of... Read more »