• History

    On Race

    The Vow James Baldwin Made to Young Civil Rights Activists

    By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.  July 28, 2020
    Linguistics

    Some of the Earliest Written Dialogues Were in Middle English Literature

    By David Crystal  July 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Explore Wallabout, where Whitman lived while finishing Leaves of Grass.

    By Corinne Segal  July 27, 2020
    The CIA

    Inside the Quest for Documents That Could Resolve a Cold War Mystery

    By Nicholson Baker  July 27, 2020
    Theater

    The Newly Resonant Lessons of an Unlikely Broadway Musical

    By Anthony Rudel  July 27, 2020
    Food History

    Tracing Contemporary Food Policies Back to the Enlightenment

    By Rebecca Earle  July 27, 2020
    Jane Austen

    On Jane Austen’s Politics of Walking

    By Rachel Cohen  July 24, 2020
    Hawaiian History

    The Citizen Scholar Who Led the Hunt for Queen Lili’uokalani’s Lost Diaries

    By Julia Flynn Siler  July 24, 2020
    American Presidents

    Was Jefferson a Hero or Villain?
    Both, and Neither.

    By Alan Taylor  July 24, 2020
    Nazi Germany

    Learning to Decipher My Father’s Past in Nazi Germany

    By L. Annette Binder  July 24, 2020
    Poetry

    “mong kok, october 2019”

    By Xiao Yue Shan  July 24, 2020
    Science fiction

    Arthur C. Clarke’s Scientific Romances Eschew Spectacle for Dumbstruck Wonder

    By John Clute  July 23, 2020
    Theater

    On the 19th-Century Actress Who Transformed Gender Dynamics in American Theater

    By Tana Wojczuk  July 23, 2020
    Feminism

    The Complicated History of Feminism’s Impact on Incarceration

    By Aya Gruber  July 23, 2020
    Storytelling

    Why Stories Makes Sense of Our Lives (and Relationships)

    By Frank Tallis  July 22, 2020
    Palestine

    To Be the Poet of Troy:
    An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha by Philip Metres

    By Philip Metres  July 22, 2020
    Film

    Oliver Stone on Bringing the Spirit of Homer’s Epics to the Screen in Platoon

    By Oliver Stone  July 22, 2020
    Mythology

    The Monster That Everyone Saw and No One Cared to Talk About

    By Colin Dickey  July 21, 2020
    Mythology

    There Be Dragons. In This Essay.

    By Arra Lynn Ross  July 20, 2020
    Classics

    The Tenacious Constancy of
    The Merchant of Prato

    By Charles Nicholl  July 20, 2020
    Folklore

    On Celtic Storytelling, From the Bardic to the Mythic

    By Martin Shaw  July 17, 2020
    Free Speech

    The Poets vs. The Police: On Standing Your Ground in
    a Toronto Park

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 16, 2020
    Economics

    The Misleading Neoliberal Promise of the Risk Expert

    By Oliver Broudy  July 16, 2020
    Native American Lit

    On Shapes of Native Nonfiction and the Story Form of
    Native Basketry

    By Literary Hub  July 16, 2020
    War

    Waiting for a War, Waiting to Live

    By Asako Serizawa  July 16, 2020
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