Literature
The Hillary Clinton School of Literary Criticism
The former first lady, senator, and secretary of state interprets the classics.
Dick Gregory Took Us All on a Strange and Powerful Trip
Comedian, civil-rights activist, food guru, and conspiracy theorist made America a better, more thoughtful place.
Impeach Eisenhower!
Friday A/V Club: A beatnik, a president, and a radio station that the FCC wouldn't license
That Time They Tried to Film Finnegans Wake
Friday A/V Club: If you're looking for a highbrow way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day...
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four Describes the Authoritarian Left Better Than It Does Trump
Trump haters rush to buy the famous dystopian novel.
Thomas Pynchon, Sitcom Star
Friday A/V Club: The most unexpected literary joke in TV history
Vonnegut, Heinlein, Kipling, and Others Battle It Out for a Libertarian Award
Finalists for a libertarian literary prize
Lionel Shriver Doesn't Care If You Hate Her Sombrero
The author of We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Mandibles pulls no punches when it comes to race, sex, or economics.
Beverly Cleary at 100
Why Henry Huggins feels a little subversive today, and other stories of Klickitat Street
Iranian Media Pledges $600,000 to Murder Salman Rushdie
Fatwas never die, even on Election Day.
The Libertarian Fiction Hall of Fame
The Libertarian Futurist Society announces this year's nominees for the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.
"Reagan Allowed Himself to Imagine a World Without The Soviet Union"
Novelist Thomas Mallon on the Cold War, gay Republicans, Facebook vs. the novel, & why "95% of writers he knows are liberal Democrats."
Great Novel About Amazons, Academics,…and Libertarians?: The Lost Sisterhood
Are you wo(man) enough to take the quiz "What does it mean to be an Amazon?"
New Harper Lee Book Has Parents Reconsidering the Wisdom of Naming a Kid 'Atticus'
The Times has scooped The Onion.
Judy Blume Bashes Trigger Warnings: 'A Lot' of Censorship on the Left These Days
"In any book there could be something to bother somebody."
Feminism, Frankenstein, and Freedom
The individualistic works and lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Death Comes for Terry Pratchett
The fantasy humorist's beloved Discworld novels tackled liberty, authority, and self-ownership with a devastatingly light touch.
Classical Mythology Too Triggering for Columbia Students
Roman and Greek mythology "contains triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities in the classroom," students say.
See Reason's Jesse Walker Speak at the Annapolis Book Festival on April 25
Discussing "Paranoia, Pranksters, and One Extraordinary Year" with Kembrew McLeod and W. Joseph Campbell
Prometheus Award Nominees for Best Libertarian Science Fiction Announced
Harlan Ellison to get Hall of Fame award for classic short story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman."
How Terry Pratchett Made Me a Libertarian
The fantasy author whose Discworld novels talked up liberty and self-ownership has died at 66.
The Elusive Politics of American Sniper
It isn't a hawkish movie, and it isn't conventionally dovish either. But it does have a distinct political perspective.
Fifty Shades of WTF
Everybody hates E.L. James' bondage fantasy except for hundreds of millions of readers and moviegoers. Maybe, just maybe, the fans are onto something.
Orwell's 1984 Still Matters, Though Not in the Way You Might Think
A Washington, D.C., readathon reminds us that the left once hated this anti-totalitarian classic.
Reason Writer's Book Declared Notable, Highbrow, and Brilliant
Accolades for Kerry Howley's Thrown
Taste Is Personal: A Primer in Nobel Prize-Winning Literature
The subjective theory of value in action.
Banned Books Week: Comic Books and Literary Censorship
An interview with Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
Zane Kesey and the New Merry Pranksters' Acid(-Free) Tests
They're keeping counterculture kicking.
