Notes on Class

Kevin Barry returns to the city of stories

A conversation with the Irish writer about "The Heart in Winter," writing an authentic Western in the era of Yellowstone, and coming back to the place…

Oct 19 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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September 2025

'We Want to Believe'

Author and journalist Leah Sottile talks spirituality, New Age and America's endless fascination with cults, and offers us all some advice for staying…

Sep 30 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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Gifts for a Labor Martyr

Labor Day with Frank Little, and how little things change

Sep 2 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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June 2025

Machines Can't Replace You

on finishing a book that could only have been written by real, live humans

Jun 6 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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May 2025

Small Hands

and what that really means in factory work

May 25 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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March 2024

The Right Kind of White

An interview with author Garrett Bucks on race and class in America

Mar 19, 2024 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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December 2023

What became of your local newspaper?

Community power displayed in buildings

Dec 5, 2023 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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November 2023

Economic indicators

and the things we don't count

Nov 22, 2023 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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October 2023

Leaving isn’t the only answer

On toxic politics, fleeing to safety and fighting back

Oct 31, 2023 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America

An interview with historian Betsy Gaines Quammen

Oct 24, 2023 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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September 2021

Pushed Out in the American West

Going deeper on rural gentrification with sociologist Ryanne Pilgeram

Sep 7, 2021 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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February 2021

Trying to buy in a Montana boomtown

On being middle-class in a housing market tilted to the wealthiest buyers

Feb 21, 2021 • 

Kathleen McLaughlin

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