• History

    New Books Network

    How Paper Money Shaped American Capitalism

    By New Books Network  September 9, 2020
    Book Covers

    The Unexpected Politics of Book Cover Design

    By Jenny Bhatt  September 8, 2020
    Keen On

    What Are the Chances of a Peaceful Transition of Power in November?

    By Keen On  September 8, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Language Keepers: Talking to the Last Fluent Speaker of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Language

    By Emergence Magazine  September 8, 2020
    New Books Network

    Matt Yglesias Makes the Case for More Americans

    By New Books Network  September 8, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Read by Robin Miles

    By Behind the Mic   September 7, 2020
    Racism

    Racists politicized the US postal system when they burned abolitionist literature in 1835.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 4, 2020
    Keen On

    The Twilight of Democracy and the Rise of Authoritarianism

    By Keen On  September 4, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Bible Is Far More Interesting to Read as a Literary Text Than a Literal One

    By New Books Network  September 4, 2020
    New Books Network

    Bryn Turnbull on the Woman Who Preceded Wallis Simpson

    By New Books Network  September 4, 2020
    The Hub

    400-year-old book sells for $3.1 million, PRH contemplates new business model.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 3, 2020
    Artists

    What Awaits Muses Who Outlive
    Their Usefulness?

    By Annalena McAfee  September 3, 2020
    Local Politics

    When Hunter S. Thompson
    Ran for Sheriff

    By David Wills  September 3, 2020
    Great Authors

    “Will I Come to a Miserable End?” Jenny Erpenbeck on Thomas Mann

    By Jenny Erpenbeck  September 3, 2020
    Jazz

    Louis Armstrong’s Rapturous First Tour Through the American South

    By Ricky Riccardi  September 3, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Introducing Language Keepers, the Story of Indigenous Language Survival in California

    By Emergence Magazine  September 3, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Allure of the Paratroopers:
    A Reading from Those Devils in Baggy Pants

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 3, 2020
    On Translation

    Inside the Intricate Translation Process for a Murakami Novel

    By David Karashima  September 2, 2020
    Consumerism

    Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

    By Jennifer Howard  September 2, 2020
    Archeology

    Obsession and Desire in an Ancient Assyrian Library

    By Jo Marchant  September 2, 2020
    Keen On

    Kurt Andersen on the Morbid Symptoms of America

    By Keen On  September 2, 2020
    On Craft

    If Only Doctors Could Treat Historical Guilt

    By Katharina Volckmer  September 2, 2020
    Pollution

    Kerri Arsenault on Life and Death in a Maine Mill Town

    By Kerri Arsenault  September 1, 2020
    Hagiography

    In Which Eliot Weinberger Catalogues a History of Hyacinths

    By Eliot Weinberger  September 1, 2020
    New Books Network

    When Fidel Castro Held Court in Harlem

    By New Books Network  September 1, 2020
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