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Una Cultura en Juego: Identity, Erasure and Language in America Today

Una Cultura en Juego: Identity, Erasure and Language in America Today

Natalie Guerrero: “All these years I’ve been asking the wrong question, and what I wake up with today is another one burning inside me”

By Natalie Guerrero | July 28, 2025

Gird your loins. We're about to get a lot of really bad, state-sponsored art.

Gird your loins. We're about to get a lot of really bad, state-sponsored art.

By Brittany Allen | February 10, 2025

Cinema May Be Dying, But Shitposting is a Thriving New Artform

Cinema May Be Dying, But Shitposting is a Thriving New Artform

Alex Rollins Berg on Paul Schrader’s Auteur-to-Edge Lord Trajectory

By Alex Rollins Berg | February 3, 2025

Kalyanee Mam on Knowing Your Taste

Kalyanee Mam on Knowing Your Taste

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | October 9, 2024

Generation Franchise: <br>Why Writers Are Forced to Become Brands (and Why That’s Bad)

Generation Franchise:
Why Writers Are Forced to Become Brands (and Why That’s Bad)

Jess Row on the Ubiquity of the Digital Persona, From Child Stars to Disney Adults

By Jess Row | June 26, 2024

To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

Rebecca K Reilly on the Editors Who Told Her to Change Her Novel for an American Audience

By Rebecca K Reilly | February 7, 2024

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On the Bad Binary of "Good" and "Bad" Literature

By Josh Cook | August 23, 2023

Martin Puchner on How Culture is Simultaneously Owned by Nobody and By All of Us

By Keen On | March 21, 2023

What Science Can Tell Us About How We Express Ourselves

By Batja Mesquita | July 20, 2022

<em>The Atlantic</em> is expanding its book coverage (which is good for everyone).

The Atlantic is expanding its book coverage (which is good for everyone).

By Jonny Diamond | May 16, 2022

Why America Needs a New Vocabulary to Describe Its Shortcomings

Why America Needs a New Vocabulary to Describe Its Shortcomings

Barrett Holmes Pitner on the Insufficiencies of Language

By Barrett Holmes Pitner | October 15, 2021

Matthew Salesses on Writing Plot and Cultural Context

Matthew Salesses on Writing Plot and Cultural Context

"Acceptance and rejection are cultural."

By Matthew Salesses | June 25, 2021

Why is every on-screen antiheroine suddenly vaping?

Why is every on-screen antiheroine suddenly vaping?

By Walker Caplan | June 9, 2021

Dealing with 'Friendship Overload' in the Age of<br> Social Media

Dealing with 'Friendship Overload' in the Age of
Social Media

Victoria Turk on Digital Etiquette and Work-Life Balance

By Victoria Turk | January 16, 2020

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

“To become a true American a white American’s identity
must partake of blackness.”

By John F. Callahan | January 16, 2020

On Knafeh and a Vision of the World Without Borders

On Knafeh and a Vision of the World Without Borders

What a Beloved Dessert Reveals About Cultural Appropriation

By Vidya Balachander | January 6, 2020

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