In Praise of the Great Rats in Literature. Literally.

In Praise of the Great Rats in Literature. Literally.

Austin Ratner on the Most Maligned Animal in the History of Art

By Austin Ratner | July 8, 2021

“A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!” On the Rise and Fall of Radium in the Beauty Industry

“A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!” On the Rise and Fall of Radium in the Beauty Industry

Lucy Jane Santos on the Most Dangerous Skincare Ingredient of the Early 20th Century

By Lucy Jane Santos | July 8, 2021

Summers of Discovery: Adventures in Greece with Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen

Summers of Discovery: Adventures in Greece with Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen

Judy Scott on the Intensity of Found Families

By Judy Scott | July 8, 2021

What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

Rachel Donohue on the Character That Wouldn't Leave Her Alone

By Rachel Donohue | July 8, 2021

What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

Emily Austin Navigates the Grief That Lurks Within the Best of Memories

By Emily Austin | July 8, 2021

How the Bush Administration Did More For AIDS in Africa Than At Home

How the Bush Administration Did More For AIDS in Africa Than At Home

Emily Bass on Foreign Aid and America's Response to Long-Standing Pandemics

By Emily Bass | July 8, 2021

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How College Rankings Created the Student Debt Crisis

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WATCH: Kyle Whyte and Jay Griffiths Discuss Indigenous Cultures and Climate Change

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The Quiet Boy by Ben H. Winters, Read by William DeMeritt

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How John Ashbery Thinks: Reading the Collages of a Great Poet

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Paul Legault on Art That Shows You You’re Not Dead

By Paul Legault | July 7, 2021

Jessica Hopper on Rock, Rapture, and What Artists Do that Mortals Cannot

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“These records give me a language to decipher just how fucked I am.”

By Jessica Hopper | July 7, 2021

Deus Ex Machina with a Credit Card: On the Pleasures of Writing Supremely Rich Characters

Deus Ex Machina with a Credit Card: On the Pleasures of Writing Supremely Rich Characters

Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta Consider Our Literary Fixation on the Very Wealthy

By Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta | July 7, 2021

Kristen Radtke: “Putting Anything into the World Is Totally Humiliating”

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In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | July 7, 2021

On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s <em>The Emigrants</em>

On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants

This Week From the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | July 7, 2021

We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

Julia Baird on the Long, Hard Work of Activism

By Julia Baird | July 7, 2021

In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History

In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History

Encounters With a Nation, Then and Now

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