• History

    Plot

    Bringing Together Kaleidoscopic Plots: A Reading List

    By Anna Solomon  May 7, 2020
    Civil Rights

    My Grandfather Participated in One of America’s Deadliest Racial Conflicts

    By J. Chester Johnson  May 6, 2020
    Food

    Did the Italians Actually Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?

    By Bill Buford  May 5, 2020
    Museums

    The Louvre Has Survived Wars, Uprisings and Yes, a Plague

    By James Gardner  May 5, 2020
    Conversations

    Anne Carson on Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy

    By Sarah Moore  May 4, 2020
    Reading Lists

    The Writers Vincent van Gogh Loved, From Charles Dickens to Harriet Beecher Stowe

    By Mariella Guzzoni  May 4, 2020
    Art

    At a Fabled Artist’s Colony, Ruth Asawa Found Her Voice

    By Marilyn Chase  May 4, 2020
    Colonialism

    The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research

    By Kristen Millares Young  May 4, 2020
    Jane Austen

    Cassandra Austen: Literary Arsonist, or a Heroine in Her Own Right?

    By Gill Hornby  May 1, 2020
    Criticism

    How Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag Looked at Photos
    of Violence

    By Pepper Stetler  May 1, 2020
    Identity

    A History of Gaps: Who Can Tell the Story of the Vietnamese Diaspora?

    By Kim-Anh Schreiber  April 30, 2020
    Motherhood

    The Saint and I: On Augustine and Writing About Mothers

    By Natalie Carnes  April 28, 2020
    18th Century Literature

    On Frances Burney and the Birth of ‘Chick Lit’

    By Gina Fattore  April 27, 2020
    The Writing Life

    Why Are We Obsessed With Writers’ Houses?

    By Elisa Wouk Almino  April 27, 2020
    Middle East

    Syria’s Doomed Struggle for Independence After WWI

    By Elizabeth F. Thompson  April 24, 2020
    Iraq War

    On the Rise and Fall of ISIS

    By Patrick Cockburn  April 24, 2020
    New York City

    The Cast of Characters at Chelsea’s Legendary
    Flea Market

    By Michael Rips  April 22, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Finding a Way Forward from the Pandemic in the Words of the Poets

    By Lawrence Joseph  April 22, 2020
    Art

    The Decade John Berger Became an Art World Revolutionary

    By Joshua Sperling  April 21, 2020
    Conspiracies

    How the Trump Presidency Became a Hotbed of Conspiracy Theory

    By David Rohde  April 21, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How Did Writers Survive the
    First Great Depression?

    By Jason Boog  April 20, 2020
    Cities

    What We Remember When
    We Walk in the City

    By Lauren Elkin  April 20, 2020
    Diets

    Misquoting Hippocrates to Promote Diet Culture?

    By Helen Morales  April 20, 2020
    Swimming

    Why Do We Swim?

    By Bonnie Tsui  April 16, 2020
    Indigenous Peoples

    Where They Sing to the River: Sierra Nevada, the Heart
    of the World

    By Wade Davis  April 15, 2020
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