Afrofuturism, the centuries-long intellectual and creative tradition of imagining Black futures through speculative narratives, could not be more relevant right now as we face racial, social, and economic inequities alongside a worsening climate crisis.

The world’s richest man has taken to verse, and the results are just as unpleasant as the rest of his ideas.

In his 100th year, there's a danger in celebrating Baldwin without recognizing his true radicalism.

Not everyone has the available time or energy to do deep reading. But if you’re going to make confident public pronouncements on matters that require a lot of research, books will help you avoid dangerous foolishness.

Move over cyberpunk. Make way for solarpunk, the defiant ecosocialist answer to dystopian doomerism.

Most political poetry is not good. But can it ever be? Yes!

When Victor Hugo wrote Les Misérables, he hoped that “books of this kind may serve some purpose.” And they do. The 19th century social novels of Hugo and Émile Zola remain insightful on issues of labor and economic injustice in our own time.

Books are where the knowledge is. A flourishing democracy depends on a culture that cares about and talks about books.