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The six-foot-high bronze scultpure depicts Bernie Friedenberg cradling a wounded World War II soldier on Omaha Beach on D Day 1944. "I'm overwhelmed," said his daughter, Susan Friedenberg.

The FBI was never meant to address right-wing extremists. We can’t look to it to stop the right.

Tracy Zeman interviews poet Susan Tichy, whose new book North | Rock | Edge: Shetland 2017/2019 "distills somatic observations down their bones."

A conversation with Alissa Quart about her new book Bootstrapped, an examination of how the ideology of individualism helped create the conditions for inequality.

Am I doing the right thing?

I first met Hugo García Manríquez in 2019 at Casa Tomada, an independent bookstore and cultural space located in the la Condesa neighborhood of Mexico…

Mary and George Oppen on their boat in California, circa 1930 Photo by AP. “George and Mary Oppen were branded enemies of the state,” writes Joel Whitney in a recent essay for The Poetry Foundation titled “The Violent Years.” “Their FBI files document just how deep their activism went, and the price they paid for it.” The author of “Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the Worlds Best Writers” has long been interested in the links between the world of litera...