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My high school English syllabus, ranked.

My high school English syllabus, ranked.

By Brittany Allen | September 8, 2025

A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

Aaron Robertson Recommends Victoria Wolcott, Nell Irvin Painter, Wilson Jeremiah Moses, and More

By Aaron Robertson | October 2, 2024

Transcending the Mundane: On Fictional Characters in Search of Utopias

Transcending the Mundane: On Fictional Characters in Search of Utopias

Tara Isabella Burton Recommends R.O. Kwon, David Burr Gerrard, William Morris, and More

By Tara Isabella Burton | January 16, 2024

Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

"What better future can we believe in, so that it can be made?"

By Jen Silverman | September 25, 2023

Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains

Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains

Kristen R. Ghodsee Recommends Thomas More, Aldus Huxley, and More

By Kristen R. Ghodsee | May 17, 2023

Thrifted Suits, Gender Anarchy, and the Power of a Writing Uniform

Thrifted Suits, Gender Anarchy, and the Power of a Writing Uniform

Heidi Sopinka on Sartorial Experimentation

By Heidi Sopinka | September 29, 2022

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How To Leave the World Behind: On the Dreams of Utopian Groupies

By Adrian Shirk | March 14, 2022

Mychal Denzel Smith on Believing In a Future That Doesn't Sacrifice Lives to Pandemics

By Thresholds | September 9, 2020

On the Evolution of Fatness<br> in Society

On the Evolution of Fatness
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Christopher Forth on Religious and Utopian Figurations of the Human Body and Disgust

By Christopher E. Forth | July 29, 2019

The Swimming Pool: Fascist Blue Rectangle or Immersive Democratic Space?

The Swimming Pool: Fascist Blue Rectangle or Immersive Democratic Space?

Ellena Savage on the Complicated Past, Present, and Future of Pools

By Ellena Savage | June 12, 2019

Building a Better (Socialist) MFA System

Building a Better (Socialist) MFA System

Juliana Spahr on Aspirational Utopian Education in a Neoliberal World

By Juliana Spahr | August 23, 2018

The Maternal, Feminist Utopias of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Maternal, Feminist Utopias of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Famous for "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman Had an Optimistic Streak

By Michael Robertson | June 4, 2018

Did Camp Change Me? It Made Me a Liar, Which Is to Say a Novelist

Did Camp Change Me? It Made Me a Liar, Which Is to Say a Novelist

On the Myth-Making Lessons of Summer Camp

By Heather Abel | May 21, 2018

Will Iain M. Banks's Bonkers Space Opera Novels Work On Screen?

Will Iain M. Banks's Bonkers Space Opera Novels Work On Screen?

Everything You Need to Know About the Culture Novels

By Lincoln Michel | February 28, 2018

Kim Stanley Robinson: We Have Come to a Bad Moment, and We Must Change

Kim Stanley Robinson: We Have Come to a Bad Moment, and We Must Change

The Author of New York 2140 Talks Capitalism, Climate Change, and Dystopia

By Christopher Lydon | November 17, 2017