• History

    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
    New Books Network

    When Human Rights Memorials Actually Fan the Flames of Nationalism

    By New Books Network  October 2, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Ellis Cose on the Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America

    By The Literary Life  October 2, 2020
    Justice

    When Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissented in Bush v. Gore

    By Ruth Bader Ginsburg  October 1, 2020
    Material History

    What Exactly Do We Mean By a Book?

    By James Raven  October 1, 2020
    American Identity

    Many Rights, Few Responsibilities: What Does It Mean To Be an American Citizen?

    By Ru Freeman  October 1, 2020
    Cookbooks

    The Cookbook That Keeps Memories of a Maine Inn Alive

    By Jeanne Hodesh  October 1, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Women Who Figured Out the V2 Launch Sites During the London Blitz

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 1, 2020
    WWII

    How a 27-Year-Old Heiress Helped Shape the Post-WWII World

    By Catherine Grace Katz  October 1, 2020
    American Presidents

    What Happens When a President
    Really Listens?

    By Jonathan Alter  September 30, 2020
    History of Reading

    At Their Own Pace: Why Reading Is Not an Inherent Moral Good

    By Katherine Gaudet  September 30, 2020
    Literary History

    The Night W.S. Merwin Was Stripped Naked by a Charismatic Buddhist Leader

    By Emily Temple  September 30, 2020
    On Translation

    How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert

    By Sara Reggiani  September 30, 2020
    Basketball

    How a Poem Ends Up As a Basketball Epic

    By Inua Ellams  September 30, 2020
    Change Lab

    Bob Davidson on Rising Above Segregation through Persistence and Resistance

    By Change Lab  September 30, 2020
    Beauty

    Why Are We Fascinated by Strange Faces?

    By Namwali Serpell  September 29, 2020
    Protest

    Funeral in Effigy for the Statue of a Klansman Confederate General

    By Connor Towne O'Neill  September 29, 2020
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