Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President

How the president-elect is already mixing personal business with leading the United States.

Published: Nov 28, 2016
Length: 27 minutes (6,977 words)

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.

Source: Subtropics
Published: Jun 29, 2016
Length: 30 minutes (7,604 words)

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.

Published: Nov 22, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2,957 words)

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.

Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 23, 2016

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.

Source: Mother Jones
Published: Nov 23, 2016
Length: 24 minutes (6,204 words)

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.

Author: Kelly Luce
Published: Nov 18, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,801 words)

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.

Source: Literary Hub
Published: Nov 23, 2016
Length: 34 minutes (8,565 words)

“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.

Source: The AV Club
Published: Nov 21, 2016
Length: 32 minutes (8,155 words)

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.

Source: The Daily Beast
Published: Nov 20, 2016
Length: 26 minutes (6,547 words)

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.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 21, 2016
Length: 6 minutes (1,747 words)