• History

    Black Music

    Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

    By Anaïs Duplan  October 14, 2020
    Abolition

    How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

    By H.W. Brands  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon’s Descent to War

    By Kim Ghattas  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

    By Richard M. Eaton  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States’ Influence in the Middle East

    By Rashid Khalidi  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    On Rethinking the ‘Modern’ in Modern Greece

    By Roderick Beaton  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

    By Vincent Brown  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

    By Paul Lay  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

    By Claudio Saunt  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

    By Kerri K Greenidge  October 14, 2020
    Soviet Union

    Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

    By Julius Margolin  October 13, 2020
    Expatriates

    Americans Abroad in Literature: A Passport to Reading

    By Soledad Fox Maura  October 13, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

    By Lit Century   October 13, 2020
    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
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