David Mura

David Mura is an award-winning novelist, essayist, playwright, and critic based in Minnesota. His most recent collection of essays, from the University of Minnestoa Press, is The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myth and Our American Narratives. Also a poet, Mura has published four collections including Angels for the Burning, The Last Incantations, The Colors of Desire, and After We Lost Our Way. Mura is the recipient of a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Garrett Hongo

I Hear America Singing

Japanese American poet Garrett Hongo is a guiding spirit to a glorious cacophony, an exuberant collective thrum made of different tongues and peoples.

Editors' Picks

Doing Math with Intellectual Humility

Math class is an opportunity to teach students both how to use conjecture to arrive at knowledge and how to learn from the logic of peers.

Willie Mae Thornton Deserves Your Full Attention

In a meditative new biography, DJ and scholar Lynnée Denise examines the mysteries and trials in the life of the legendary performer.

Politics & History

The Fourteenth Amendment: Annotated

Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution addresses citizenship rights, due process, and equal protection under the law.

Education & Society

Class Production

A collection of high school yearbooks from Cleveland captures the rise, fall, and uncertain future of the American middle class.

Education & Society

Intellectual Humility: Foundations and Key Concepts

Research about intellectual humility has exploded in the past decade. Psychologist Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso offers an annotated bibliography of key texts.