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How Peter Higgs Came to Abhor of Nuclear Weapons—and Find Hope in Particle Physics

How Peter Higgs Came to Abhor of Nuclear Weapons—and Find Hope in Particle Physics

Frank Close on the Early Scientific Education of the Man Who Discovered the Higgs Boson

By Frank Close | June 15, 2022

“Every night we hear the coyotes howl.” Read Letters from Ernest Hemingway to His Son

“Every night we hear the coyotes howl.” Read Letters from Ernest Hemingway to His Son

Patrick Hemingway in Key West, Papa in Cuba

By Ernest Hemingway and Patrick Hemingway | June 14, 2022

“I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure.” When James Baldwin Went to Fire Island

“I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure.” When James Baldwin Went to Fire Island

Jack Parlett on Where the Iconic Writer Wrote Another Country

By Jack Parlett | June 14, 2022

Why Writing an Autobiography Is More Like Recording an Album Than Making a Single

Why Writing an Autobiography Is More Like Recording an Album Than Making a Single

Nabil Ayers in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 14, 2022

Ada Calhoun on Ouida, The Most Famous Lady Novelist You’ve Never Heard Of

Ada Calhoun on Ouida, The Most Famous Lady Novelist You’ve Never Heard Of

The Joy of Pulling Authors Out of the Pit of Anonymity

By Ada Calhoun | June 13, 2022

Art Buchwald in Paris: Fan Letters from Steinbeck, and an Invite to the Most Famous Wedding in the World

Art Buchwald in Paris: Fan Letters from Steinbeck, and an Invite to the Most Famous Wedding in the World

On the Legendary Humorist’s Time with Ben Bradlee, Humphrey Bogart, and the Windsors

By Michael Hill | June 13, 2022

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When Rob Reiner’s Alter Ego (Harry) Met Nora Ephron’s Alter Ego (Sally)

By Kristin Marguerite Doidge | June 8, 2022

Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

Jen DeGregorio Investigates the Literary Lives of David Omer Bearden and Alan Bätjer Russo

By Jen DeGregorio | June 6, 2022

How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

Anna Malaika Tubbs in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 2, 2022

How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

Philip Dray on the Murder of Robert Lewis and Wells's Anti-Lynching Exposés

By Philip Dray | June 2, 2022

Why Sofia Coppola Wanted to Make the (Admittedly Obnoxious) <em>Bling Ring</em>

Why Sofia Coppola Wanted to Make the (Admittedly Obnoxious) Bling Ring

“It was so repellent to me and it was repellent to her, too.”

By Hannah Strong | June 1, 2022

What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

Michael Blanding on the (Extremely Compelling) Sir Thomas North Theory

By Michael Blanding | May 31, 2022

When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever

When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever

“And so started a summer of Brits, young and old, doing everything they could to be just like Marilyn.”

By Michelle Morgan | May 27, 2022

How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected

How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected

Marco Belpoliti on Collective Memory and Publishing in Post-War Italy

By Marco Belpoliti and Clarissa Botsford | May 26, 2022

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