• History

    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
    Indigenous Voices

    On Wild Salmon, Hockey Dreams and Life in the Saanich Homeland

    By Sara Sinclair  September 29, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    The Black Women Who Led the Fight for Decolonization in the French Empire

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   September 29, 2020
    Soviet Union

    On the Liberation Struggles of the
    Soviet Refuseniks

    By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy  September 29, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Racist History and Political Ends of Taking Children

    By New Books Network  September 29, 2020
    Class

    Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?

    By David R. Roediger  September 28, 2020
    Censorship

    Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

    By Amir Ahmadi Arian  September 28, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2020
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