• History

    Just the Right Book

    Dr. Edie Has Some Thoughts
    on Survival

    By Just the Right Book   November 12, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Al Murray Reads from The Last 100 Years (Give or Take) and All That

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   November 12, 2020
    Travel

    When Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder Roamed the Pacific Northwest

    By Allen Ginsberg  November 11, 2020
    Keen On

    On the Deep Ties Between Slavery and Wall Street

    By Keen On  November 11, 2020
    New Books Network

    On Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America

    By New Books Network  November 11, 2020
    TV

    Alex Trebek’s Life in
    Three Timelines

    By Claire McNear  November 10, 2020
    Lit Century

    On the Dark American Nostalgia of Cheaper By the Dozen

    By Lit Century   November 10, 2020
    Architecture

    A People’s History of Bathing

    By Christie Pearson  November 10, 2020
    New Books Network

    It’s Time to Free Ourselves from the Magical Thinking of ‘Oilcraft’

    By New Books Network  November 10, 2020
    Literary Icons

    Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

    By David Lazar  November 9, 2020
    New Books Network

    That Middle World: The Politics of Passing, from the Antebellum Period to Rachel Dolezal

    By New Books Network  November 9, 2020
    2020 Election

    Rebecca Solnit: Our First Black Woman President Is Here

    By Rebecca Solnit  November 6, 2020
    The Writing Life

    No One Gets Sylvia Plath

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 6, 2020
    Travel

    Cees Nooteboom Takes a Wintry Ride Through Venice

    By Cees Nooteboom  November 6, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Longstanding Love Affair of Cocaine and Surfing

    By New Books Network  November 6, 2020
    Family History

    Between the Cane Rows: Principles of Making in the Cycles of Power

    By Patrick Rosal  November 5, 2020
    On Memoir

    The First Mughal Emperor’s Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

    By William Dalrymple  November 5, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Secret Intelligence and Betrayal Amid the French Resistance

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   November 5, 2020
    Classical Music

    I Knew How to Play Bach, But That Didn’t Mean I Was Good

    By Dan Moller  November 4, 2020
    Arts and Crafts

    On the Covert Role of Knitting During the French Revolution and World War II

    By Loretta Napoleoni  November 4, 2020
    Art History

    Why Byzantium? Studying the Art of the Middle Ages as a Queer Latinx

    By Roland Betancourt  November 4, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery Undermined White Supremacy

    By New Books Network  November 4, 2020
    Soviet Union

    Growing Up in the Soviet Union’s Hero City

    By Valzhyna Mort  November 3, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    On the Connection Between Whaling and Imperialism in the Bering Strait

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   November 3, 2020
    Well-Versed

    Megan Rosenbloom on the Macabre History of Books Bound in Human Skin

    By Well-Versed   November 3, 2020
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