• History

    Women's Rights

    When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

    By Melvin I. Urofsky  December 14, 2020
    On Translation

    On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

    By Damiano Abeni  December 14, 2020
    Keen On

    How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today’s Republican Party

    By Keen On  December 11, 2020
    Black Arts

    Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham on Social Media, Black Futurity,
    and the Archive

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 11, 2020
    Biology

    Barry Lopez on the Wolf Biologist Who Changed His Life as an Environmentalist

    By Barry Lopez  December 11, 2020
    Antiquity

    What the World’s First Medical Records Tell Us About
    Ancient Life

    By Robin Lane Fox  December 11, 2020
    The Writing Life

    What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

    By Patrick Wright  December 11, 2020
    Civil Rights

    Civil Rights Activist George M. Houser Worked with the Greats of the 20th Century

    By Sheila D. Collins  December 11, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    I Wrote a Tragic Novel About the 1918 Flu. 14 Years Later, My Family Got COVID

    By Thomas Mullen  December 10, 2020
    European History

    Memorializing History’s Dark Corners With Absurdity

    By Keith Lowe  December 10, 2020
    New York City

    The Private Lives of Shuttered Stores: On Abandoned Interiors

    By Mark Hage  December 10, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Problem of Comparing Allied and Axis Forces

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   December 10, 2020
    Letters

    Edith Vonnegut on the Love Letters of Kurt and Jane Vonnegut

    By Edith Vonnegut  December 9, 2020
    Incarceration

    On Struggling with Drug Addiction and the System of Incarceration

    By Chris Dennis  December 9, 2020
    Rock N Roll

    How KISS Became a Rock & Roll Phenomenon

    By Doug Brod  December 9, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Reyna Grande in Conversation with John Freeman

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 9, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Textiles Made the World

    By New Books Network  December 9, 2020
    On Translation

    The Challenges of Translating Jean Daive’s Memoir 
    on Paul Celan

    By Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard  December 9, 2020
    Literary Tourism

    On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer’s House

    By Phoebe Hamilton Jones  December 8, 2020
    Dating

    Finding An Unlikely Literary Figure on Tinder: Kurt Vonnegut

    By Mikka Jacobsen  December 8, 2020
    Black Community

    Finding Black Community in the UK as a Black American Expatriate

    By Kenya Hunt  December 8, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Cost of Prejudice in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    By New Books Network  December 8, 2020
    Monoliths?

    On Cairns, Hoodoos, and Monoliths: What Happens in the Desert Shouldn’t Always Stay in the Desert

    By Rebecca Worby  December 7, 2020
    News and Culture

    On James Dickey and the Truths
    That Matter

    By Paul Hendrickson  December 7, 2020
    Architecture

    Doreen St. Félix on June Jordan’s Vision of a Black Future

    By Doreen St. Félix  December 7, 2020
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