class

The Great (Un)Equalizer: How Black and Native Families Struggle to Achieve Social Mobility Through Education

Eve L. Ewing on the Structural Factors Behind Economic and Educational Inequality in America

 
By Eve L. Ewing  February 12, 2025
The Hub

Dorothy Allison, author and force of nature, has died.

By Brittany Allen  November 8, 2024
Class

How a Legacy of Poverty and Systematic Exclusion Created “White Trash” in America

By Jaydra Johnson  November 8, 2024
The Issues: 2024

The Issues 2024: Going Deep on the Problem of Income Inequality

By Literary Hub  October 8, 2024
The Issues: 2024

10 Best Books for Understanding American Class

By Literary Hub  October 8, 2024
Income Inequality

“Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots

By Douglas Unger  October 7, 2024
Revolts

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

By Ben Ehrenreich  September 13, 2024
Economics

As Much Power As the President: How Billionaires Became More Influential than World Leaders

By Rob Larson  August 29, 2024
Presidential Campaign 2024

JD Vance is the Toxic Byproduct of America’s Obsession with Bootstrap Narratives

By Alissa Quart  July 18, 2024
The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money

By Naomi Kanakia  April 16, 2024
The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

By Alissa Quart  April 15, 2024
Suburbia

White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

By Benjamin Herold  January 23, 2024
The Maris Review

Stephanie Land On Allowing Herself To Get Angry

By The Maris Review  November 9, 2023
Interview

Stephanie Land on the Routine That Helped Her Write Her New Book in a Month

By Stephanie Land  November 7, 2023
Money Matters

“Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses”: Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers

By Yiyun Li  September 6, 2023
Money Matters

Unspendable Currency: Edgar Kunz on Making Ends Meet As a Poet

By Edgar Kunz  August 22, 2023
Criticism

Haunted by the Question: What It Means To “Become” a Writer

By Efrén Ordóñez Garza  July 24, 2023
Politics

How Single-Family Zoning Laws Reinforce Existing Race and Class Divisions

By Richard D. Kahlenberg  July 14, 2023
The Writing Life

Imposters, Insiders, and Interlopers: Amy Rowland on Writing About Rural America

By Amy Rowland  July 13, 2023
True Crime

Class, Power, and Murder on the Emerald Isle: The Case of Malcolm Macarthur

By Mark O’Connell  June 27, 2023
Keen On

Garrett Neiman on Uprooting the Old Boy’s Club in Order to Transform America

By Keen On  June 26, 2023
Inequality

How Stress Creeps Through Social Inequity to Shorten Lives

By Arline T. Geronimus  March 31, 2023
Keen On

Nicole Chung Tells a Personal Story of Family, Class, Anger, and Grief in an Unequal America

By Keen On  March 30, 2023
Keen On

Alissa Quart on Why We Need to Liberate Ourselves From the “American Dream”

By Keen On  March 15, 2023
On Poetry

Poetry and Social Class: Robert Pinsky on His Many Readings of Robert Lowell

By Robert Pinsky  October 13, 2022
Violence

Who Has the Right to Bear Arms? A Brief History

By Elsa Dorlin  September 28, 2022
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