Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President
How the president-elect is already mixing personal business with leading the United States.
New Neighbors
In our continued mission to bring attention to America’s print literary magazines, here is a powerful essay from the University of Florida’s journal Subtropics, about the way homophobia and transphobia ran one couple out of their new apartment, and into disarray. Unfortunately, this story is as timely as ever.
Billionaires vs. the Press in the Era of Trump
A look at how deep pockets and expensive libel suits allow billionaires like Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to hamper and threaten the free press in the United States.
A Reading List for Thanksgiving
None of the following stories were written in 2016, but the themes of our contemporary American Thanksgiving traditions—family, identity, history—remain relevant.
White Nationalists See Trump as Their Troll in Chief. Is He With Them?
An examination of the racist extremist movements capitalizing on Trump’s victory.
Truth, Lies, and Videotape
When writer Kelly Luce spends a week in a women’s detention center in Japan for a crime she didn’t commit, she learns about the difference between perception and reality, and what justice and punishment mean in a country known for honor and low crime.
Write the Book That Scares You Shitless: An Interview with Colson Whitehead
LitHub executive editor John Freeman’s interview with author Colson Whitehead, who this week won the National Book Award for The Underground Railroad. The two discuss the genesis of the book, the ridiculous notion that we entered a “post-racial” world after Barack Obama was elected, and the lingering relevance and effects of slavery.
“It Smelled Like Death”: An Oral History of the Double Dare Obstacle Course
An entertaining behind-the-scenes look at how the obstacle course in a popular Nickelodeon game show was put together.
The Search for My Father’s Killer
An excerpt of Daily Beast editor-at-large Goldie Taylor’s forthcoming memoir, Let Me Still Be Singing When Evening Comes. Taylor learns some hard truths about her father as she searches for clues about his murder in St. Louis, in 1973.
Connie Converse’s Time Has Come
In the 1950s, polymath Connie Converse recorded songs in her apartment that the American public met with silence. Then she disappeared.
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