• History

    Historical Fiction

    Elsa Hart on Writing an 18th-Century Crime-Solving Librarian

    By New Books Network  November 1, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 31, 2019
    Magic?

    A Most Rare Compendium:
    An 18th-Century Guide to Magical Treasure Hunting?

    By Hereward Tilton  October 31, 2019
    Madness

    American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

    By Troy Rondinone  October 31, 2019
    France

    Ode to the Seine, River of Romance

    By Elaine Sciolino  October 31, 2019
    The Day of the Dead

    The Day of the Dead: Day of Masquerade and Rebellion

    By Paul Theroux  October 31, 2019
    Indigenous Rights

    In the 1960s, the US Decided My Tribe Was No Longer a Nation

    By Ada Deer  October 30, 2019
    The Artist

    Albert Camus on the Responsibility of the Artist

    By Albert Camus  October 29, 2019
    Architecture

    Ken Follett on the Restoration of Notre Dame After the French Revolution

    By Ken Follett  October 29, 2019
    Magical Beings

    How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
    Being Human

    By Cristina Bacchilega  October 25, 2019
    Art History

    On Discovering a Multimillion-Dollar Trove of Hitler’s Looted Art in a Munich Apartment

    By Mary M. Lane  October 25, 2019
    Great Depression

    Howard Zinn: How FDR Forestalled a Second American Revolution

    By Howard Zinn  October 25, 2019
    War

    The “Hidden Armies” of Britain That Battled the Nazis

    By Olivier Wieviorka  October 25, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
    Post-Truth Age

    By Joanna Kavenna  October 25, 2019
    Hip Hop

    On Debbie D, One of Hip-Hop’s Legendary Pioneers

    By Kathy Iandoli  October 25, 2019
    Inspiration

    For So Many Cultures, the Key to Understanding Death is a Festival of Light

    By Sasha Sagan  October 24, 2019
    European History

    How Napoleon’s Italian Exile Set the Stage for His Return to Power

    By Mark Braude  October 24, 2019
    Poetry

    The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

    By Carl Phillips  October 23, 2019
    European Politics

    Visiting Vojna: on the Horrors of the Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia

    By Diane Simmons  October 23, 2019
    European Culture

    Exploring the Forgotten Writerly Playground of the European Aristocracy

    By Orlando Figes  October 23, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Trial of Harry Houdini

    By Joe Posnanski  October 22, 2019
    Music

    Dead Kennedys in the West:
    The Politicized Punks of 1970s San Francisco

    By Lincoln A. Mitchell  October 22, 2019
    Criticism

    Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

    By Martha Cooley  October 21, 2019
    Cundill History Prize

    The Two Mughal Princes Who Stood in the Way of the British East India Company

    By William Dalrymple  October 21, 2019
    Literary History

    On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

    By Rebecca Onion  October 21, 2019
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