• History

    Historical Fiction

    Is the Past a Literary Genre Unto Itself?

    By Sophie MacKintosh  April 13, 2023
    Baseball

    Captain Dynamite and the Exploding Coffin of Death: The Greatest Minor League Baseball Entertainment… Ever?

    By Ryan McGee  April 12, 2023
    Black Humor

    Laughing at the Enemy: How Ukrainians Weaponize Jokes in the Face of Danger

    By Johannes Lichtman and Nazar Romachenko  April 11, 2023
    Literary History

    Of Muromancy and Bruno Schulz: Uncovering Literary History in Western Ukraine

    By Benjamin Balint  April 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Steven Simon on the Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East

    By Keen On  April 11, 2023
    History of Literature

    Is Persuasion the Perfect Novel?

    By History of Literature  April 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Max J. Friedman on Why He Chose to Write a Memoir About His Holocaust-Surviving Parents

    By Keen On  April 11, 2023
    Unions

    Letter to a New New Left (Or, How Unions Got Cool Again)

    By Olivia Heffernan and Jamie McCallum  April 10, 2023
    The Hub

    In Kanye Academy, there are no Black history books.

    By Janet Manley  April 7, 2023
    Irish History

    When the IRA Arrived in Brighton to Blow Up Margaret Thatcher, Her Cabinet, and the Grand Hotel

    By Rory Carroll  April 7, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    Ilyon Woo Tells an Epic Story From Slavery to Freedom

    By Just the Right Book   April 6, 2023
    Art History

    After a Year Spent Visiting the Sistine Chapel, I Saw Something Sublime

    By Jeannie Marshall  April 6, 2023
    Colonialism

    Rewinding to the Great Indian Empires Before the British Raj

    By Nandini Das  April 6, 2023
    Humanism

    Sarah Bakewell on Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and What it Actually Means to Be “Human”

    By Sarah Bakewell  April 5, 2023
    Keen On

    Ralph White on His Wartime Efforts to Rescue Vietnamese Civilians

    By Keen On  April 5, 2023
    American History

    When the Klan Ruled Indiana… And Had Plans to Spread Its Empire of Hate Across America

    By Timothy Egan  April 4, 2023
    Advice

    Daniel M. Lavery on the Reckless Optimism of Advice Columnists

    By Daniel M. Lavery  April 4, 2023
    Keen On

    Sally Bedell Smith on the 20th-Century Royal Marriage That Saved the British Monarchy

    By Keen On  April 4, 2023
    Theater History

    The Revolutionary Power of Palestinian Theater

    By Isabella Hammad  April 4, 2023
    WWI

    On W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disgraceful Treatment of Gold Star Mothers

    By Chad L. Williams  April 4, 2023
    Climate Change

    Writing History Showed Me a New Way to View Climate Change

    By Christopher de Bellaigue  April 3, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Boyce Upholt: What Do Our Monuments Say About Who We Are?

    By Emergence Magazine  April 3, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    On the Nested Worlds of Novelist Marina Warner

    By Lucy Scholes  April 3, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Who Was the Man Behind Oscar Wilde’s Downfall?

    By History of Literature  April 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Timothy Phillips on a 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War

    By Keen On  April 3, 2023
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