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Who Controls What Books You Can Read?

Welcome to Reason's summer banned books issue

Rise of the Sensitivity Reader

Overzealous gatekeeping on race and gender is killing books before they're published or even written.

Why Ryan Reynolds Can Use Winnie-the-Pooh To Sell You a Phone Plan

As Pop Culture icons enter the public domain, a strange new era of copyright begins.

‘Men and Women Need to Fight Together for Equality'

Track and field-great Jackie Joyner-Kersee on winning Olympic gold and her hopes for the next generation of female athletes

The Book That Never Stops Changing

What I’ve learned about Dublin, and myself, in a lifetime of reading Ulysses

Two fathers

Their sons were among the sixteen people who were killed in a bus accident on a cold afternoon in Saskatchewan. Chris Joseph and Scott Thomas lost their sons in the same way, but in grief, their roads diverged.

Alaska's Wild West

Adventure and history await discovery across the last frontier state.

Advice to the Young

One of the world's most celebrated writers has much to share—though she sometimes wonders whether she should keep her thoughts to herself

Tracy Flick for Principal

Tom Perrotta's '90s antihero returns.

Chasing Joan Didion

I visited the writer's California homes, from Berkeley to Malibu. What was looking for?

Fernanda Melchor Writes Tragic Machismo

In her novels, male fear and desire are two sides of the same coin.

Still Yawning at the Apocalypse

Why is the world ignoring the latest U.N. climate report?

Things Change

Harvey Fierstein's I Was Better Last Night is part memoir and part firsthand account of modern gay history

More Cracks in the Glass Ceiling?

A new Harvard Business School analysis nds progress is being made toward workplace gender equity but it’s still slow going

There's No Such Thing as “the Latino Vote”

Why can't America see that?

Chuck Klosterman Lived Through This

In his new book, he tries to write about the ’90s as it felt at the time— at least to people like him.

Bruce Boxleitner

"James Arness made all the difference in his storied film and television career."

Rocky Mountain Bonanzas

Explore mining history from Cripple Creek to Grand Encampment.

My Top Ten Favorite Movie Moments

True West’s Firearms Editor applauds authenticity.

Cultural Traditions to Celebrate

Each year, UNESCO compiles traditions, knowledge, skills and art from communities across the globe, in a list of “Intangible Cultural Heritage.” The chosen items are not historical monuments or artifacts, but rather “living expressions inherited from our ancestors.” In a time of rapid globalization, the list serves to recognize and celebrate cultural diversity and highlights how traditional ways of life interact with the contemporary world. From the navigation skills of Micronesian wayfarers to a thousand-year pottery tradition carried by women in northern Peru, here’s a snapshot of this year’s list.

What Roots Means to Me

Alex Haley’s landmark book began in Reader’s Digest, where he worked as a senior editor. The repercussions are still being felt today.

Passion and Love for Community

Dr. Prakash Tyagi is the executive director of Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti (GRAVIS), an NGO dedicated to working in impoverished rural regions of India, including the Thar desert, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Bundelkhand. In part 2 of this interview with Kashish Kalwani, he speaks about how things have changed due to the pandemic and the importance of passion and love for community.

Our 21 Favorite Books of 2021

Luckily, 2021 provided a plethora of intriguing options to pique any interest from thrillers on this planet and in space to a Dustbowl family saga,

Joan Didion's Greatest Two-Word Sentence

The power of an ice-cold, unflinching gaze.

Sean Thor Conroe – The Protégé

Sean Thor Conroe lost his fiercest advocate right before he published his first novel. Now he’s facing the hype without him.

Mixed Media Vanishing Point

More than two centuries ago, a group of West Africans chose death over enslavement in the waters of coastal Georgia. Why do so few traces of their story remain there today?

Food For Thought: Stirring The Pot

The forgotten Chinese chef who transformed the way America cooks

Drinking Problem: Well Wishes

How thirsty cash crops could uproot vulnerable Californians

Dangerous Prophecies

The assumption that civil war is inevitable in America is inflammatory and corrosive.

John Milton's Hell

Cast into political exile, and into darkness by his failing eyesight, the poet was determined to accomplish “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”