A Martin Luther King Jr. Day Civil Rights Reading List
Pacific Standard asked civil rights experts to share their picks of the most essential literature on the movement.
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How Schools Can Finally Do Right by Native Students
After decades of diversity initiatives and tokenization, Native students deserve advisers who look like them—and a curriculum that treats them as equals.
PS Picks: Michelle Dean on Women in Literature
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
The Lede, Issue #12: Inside an Embattled EPA, the Effects of Air Pollution, the Art of Loneliness, and More
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What Makes a Book a Best Seller?
New research reports the most popular tomes tend to be thrillers, mysteries, and memoirs.
Looking to Fiction for Insights on Suicide
We need to help everyday Americans understand suicide better. Literature is well positioned to serve that function.
Literature Exposed Hollywood’s Sexual Violence Problem Decades Ago
Numerous writers over the years have written at-length about the worst parts of the entertainment industry. So why have so many people missed it?
What Makes a Poem Really Pop?
New research suggests vivid imagery is key to poetry's aesthetic appeal.
Yaa Gyasi’s Ambitious and Empathetic Fiction
Gyasi's debut novel took seven years to finish. By the time it was done, the manuscript had sparked a bidding contest among 10 publishers.
