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Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

The Lesser-Told Story of Cather and Edith Lewis

By Melissa Homestead | May 18, 2022

Here’s the Quick and Dirty on Foot Fetishes

Here’s the Quick and Dirty on Foot Fetishes

Rachel Feltman Looks Into the Theories Behind Our (Very Common) Fixation on Feet

By Rachel Feltman | May 18, 2022

Fleeing Cambodia: How I Was Finally Able to Tell My Own Origin Story

Fleeing Cambodia: How I Was Finally Able to Tell My Own Origin Story

Putsata Reang on Telling a Tale Passed Down By Her Mother

By Putsata Reang | May 18, 2022

Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home”

Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home”

“It was from the outset a blackface minstrel tune, entertainment built on slavery and the trade in human beings.”

By Emily Bingham | May 16, 2022

On the Power and Purpose of Historical Fiction

On the Power and Purpose of Historical Fiction

A Conversation Between Eva Stachniak and Christina Baker Kline

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2022

Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to <em>Bridgerton</em>

Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton

Hilary A. Hallett on Reclaiming “Trashy” Romances

By Hilary A. Hallett | May 16, 2022

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Beverly Gologorsky on the Turmoil of the Late 1960s

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Baboon Teeth, Urine Rinses... and More Horrors of Early Dentistry

Baboon Teeth, Urine Rinses... and More Horrors of Early Dentistry

Paul Craddock on the Early Literature of Tooth Transplants

By Paul Craddock | May 13, 2022

2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

Philip Freeman on What We Can Learn From the Poetics

By Philip Freeman | May 13, 2022

Nobody’s in Charge: Life in the Un-Orwellian Future

Nobody’s in Charge: Life in the Un-Orwellian Future

Andrew Keen on the Chaos of Contemporary Power

By Andrew Keen | May 13, 2022

On the Stalled Negotiations Over Reviving the Iran Nuclear Deal

On the Stalled Negotiations Over Reviving the Iran Nuclear Deal

This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon

By Open Source | May 13, 2022

On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

Why Do So Many Cold Cases Go Unsolved?

By Kathryn Miles | May 12, 2022

WATCH: Daisy Pitkin on the Challenges Facing American Workers Today

WATCH: Daisy Pitkin on the Challenges Facing American Workers Today

In Conversation with David Hill at (the Newly Unionized!) Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 12, 2022

At the Women’s House of Detention, the Intersecting Influences of Black and Gay Liberation Movements

At the Women’s House of Detention, the Intersecting Influences of Black and Gay Liberation Movements

Hugh Ryan on How Afeni Shakur's Incarceration Changed Her Political Thinking

By Hugh Ryan | May 12, 2022

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