• History

    Time to Eat the Dogs

    What We’ve Gotten Wrong About the Oceans

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   October 13, 2020
    New Books Network

    When Lamb-to-Human Blood Transfusions Were All the Rage

    By New Books Network  October 12, 2020
    The Hub

    The NYRB just bought Milton Glaser’s old townhouse.

    By Corinne Segal  October 9, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Personal Space: Maggie Smith on Her Shift in Artistic Practice

    By The Virtual Book Channel  October 9, 2020
    Refugees

    Scenes from a Yazidi Refugee Camp, Circa 2016

    By Christina Lamb  October 9, 2020
    In Conversation

    Writer Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation with Translator Sarah Booker

    By Sarah Booker  October 9, 2020
    Citizenship

    Elif Shafak on What It Means to Belong in Many Places at Once

    By Elif Shafak  October 9, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Fifteen Years After Katrina: Kristina Kay Robinson and Tom Piazza on How the Hurricane Shaped Our Past and Predicted Our Future

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 8, 2020
    Baseball

    On Bill Buckner’s Greatest Catch (with a Little Help from Larry David)

    By Abby Ellin  October 8, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    ‘How Many Years to Munich?’ Propaganda Maps of WWII

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 8, 2020
    Biography

    On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People’s Lives

    By Jonas Gardsby  October 7, 2020
    Nature

    On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

    By Kerri Andrews  October 7, 2020
    Revolutions

    Lenin Loved Revolutions,
    But What About the Revolutionaries?

    By Barnes Carr  October 7, 2020
    Magic?

    The Secret History of “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board”

    By Emily Temple  October 6, 2020
    Antiquities

    How a Scrap of Papyrus Launched a Reconsideration of Early Christianity

    By Ariel Sabar  October 6, 2020
    Travel Writing

    Reading the Travelogues of Percy Fawcett, Explorer of the Lost City of Z

    By A.J. Lees  October 6, 2020
    Criticism

    How Halldór Laxness Brings the Heroic to the Everyday

    By John Freeman  October 6, 2020
    Young Adult

    Where Are the Unlikeable Female Characters in Young Adult Fiction?

    By Hayley Krischer  October 6, 2020
    Theater

    Ishmael Reed: Mr. Miranda, Hamilton Left Out a Few Things

    By Ishmael Reed  October 6, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Andrew Denning on the Nazi Cult of Mobility

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   October 6, 2020
    Keen On

    On Abe Lincoln and the Tragic Failure of Reconstruction

    By Keen On  October 6, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Language Keepers: The Race Against Time to Save the Kawaiisu Language

    By Emergence Magazine  October 5, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What a Video Game Can Teach Us About Getting Through a Pandemic

    By Anna Weltman  October 2, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    On Riding Out the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Heart of the Old Holy Roman Empire

    By Ethan Lou  October 2, 2020
    Keen On

    How Sultan Selim’s Ottoman Empire Shaped the Modern World

    By Keen On  October 2, 2020
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