• History

    Politics

    The Making of an Anti-Woke Zealot: How Elon Musk Was Infected with the MAGA Mind-Virus

    Eoin Higgins on the Paranoid Billionaire’s Rightward Swing

     
    By Eoin Higgins  February 5, 2025
    Literary Friendships

    A Friendship Across the Color Line: How Shared Southern Roots Brought a Black Writer and a White Editor Together

    By Tess Chakkalakal  February 5, 2025
    The Hub

    Can you read cursive? Then the National Archives wants YOU.

    By Brittany Allen  February 4, 2025
    Relationships

    Actually, Master and Commander is a Domestic Fantasy About a Codependent Life Partnership!

    By Olivia Wolfgang-Smith  February 4, 2025
    Travel

    All the literary adaptations at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

    By Brittany Allen  February 3, 2025
    Urbanism

    How Local and Federal Laws Disenfranchised a Generation of Black Homeowners

    By Bernadette Atuahene  January 31, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Ethics

    Will Humanity Ever Fully Include the Nonhuman World in Its Moral Circle?

    By Jeff Sebo  January 29, 2025
    Globalization

    Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

    By Robert D. Kaplan  January 29, 2025
    Biography

    How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

    By Ruth Franklin  January 29, 2025
    Harlem Renaissance

    Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

    Belinda Edmondson on the Peripatetic Perspective of a Landmark Novel

    By Belinda Edmondson  February 5, 2025
    African American Literature

    How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    By Scott W. Stern  January 28, 2025
    The Hub

    The Trump administration just scored a major goal for book bans. (Which it claims are a “hoax.”)

    By Brittany Allen  January 27, 2025
    Anarchy and Art

    “Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

    By Ed Simon  January 27, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Gemma Tizzard on Researching for Historical Fiction

    “It’s not a job for the faint of heart, or the impatient. But for those of us with brains that crave this kind of work, it is bliss.”

    By Gemma Tizzard  January 24, 2025
    On Grief

    Matter, That Curious and Complex Illusion: Grieving for the Dead in a Universe of Atoms

    By Guido Tonelli  January 23, 2025
    World War II

    Democracy vs. Autocracy, Cooperation vs. Conflict: How World War II Was Won

    By Hal Brands  January 23, 2025
    Criminal Justice

    An Understanding Ear: How Martha Goddard Became An Advocate For Victimized Women

    By Pagan Kennedy  January 22, 2025
    Colonialism

    The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

    James H. Sweet on the Mysteries of the “Black Prince” and the Complex History of Anticolonial Mutinies

    By James H. Sweet  January 17, 2025
    The Hub

    Vampires, pranks and podcasts: here are some ideas to reboot 2025’s public domain books.

    By James Folta  January 16, 2025
    Mathematics

    How the Islamic Golden Age Helped Create Modern Mathematics

    By Raúl Rojas  January 15, 2025
    Segregation

    Beyond Brown: How the Failure of Desegregation in the North Reveals America’s Lingering Racial Fault Lines

    By Michelle Adams  January 15, 2025
    Prehistory

    Out of Africa: Discovering Our Shared Human Family, From Toumai to Turkana Boy

    Zeinab Badawi Explores the African Origins of Humanity's Earliest Ancestors

    By Zeinab Badawi  January 15, 2025
    Forgery

    The Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds

    By Bradford Morrow  January 14, 2025
    The Hub

    At this year’s MLA convention, protestors put Palestine on the docket.

    By Brittany Allen  January 13, 2025
    The Nuclear Age

    How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

    By Dorian Lynskey  January 28, 2025
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