• History

    Presidential Campaign 2020

    A Brief History of Mostly Terrible Campaign Biographies

    By Jaime Fuller  September 12, 2019
    Rejection

    A Legendary Publishing House’s Most Infamous Rejection Letters

    By Toby Faber  September 12, 2019
    Literary History

    The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
    Darkness at Noon

    By Michael Scammell  September 12, 2019
    WWII

    The Woman Who Beat the Nazis in Europe’s Deadliest Horse Race

    By Richard Askwith  September 12, 2019
    Imperialism

    Tangled Histories of Family and Empire, England and Jamaica

    By Hazel V. Carby  September 12, 2019
    Refugees

    Dina Nayeri on Returning to the Hotel-Turned-Refugee-Camp of Her Childhood

    By Dina Nayeri  September 11, 2019
    Economics

    From Wall Street to Chicago’s South Side: When Global Economics Make Local Progress Nearly Impossible

    By Nicholas Lemann  September 11, 2019
    The Spanish Civil War

    The Communist Plot to Assassinate George Orwell

    By Duncan White  September 10, 2019
    Math

    From the Ruins of Rome to the Invention of Perspective

    By Amir Alexander  September 10, 2019
    War

    What Happened to the American Citizen-Soldier?

    By Steele Brand  September 9, 2019
    Criticism

    On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

    By Slavoj Žižek  September 9, 2019
    Maoism

    On the Unlikely Extremes of Maoist Influence on the West

    By Julia Lovell  September 5, 2019
    News and Culture

    Prince Albert’s Dream of an Industrial Britain

    By A.N. Wilson  September 5, 2019
    Folklore

    The Monster That Drew Crowds to a Small Midwestern Town

    By B.J. Hollars  September 4, 2019
    Travel

    On Dark Tourism: Murder, Hauntings, and the Serial Killer Capital of Australia

    By Aimee Knight  September 3, 2019
    Just the Right Book

    Jenny Odell: Our Vision of ‘Productivity’ is Way Too Narrow

    By Just the Right Book   August 29, 2019
    Literary Legends

    Tracking Down My Literary Idol to a San Francisco Commune

    By Philippe Aronson  August 28, 2019
    Ancient History

    The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History’s Great Unsolved Mysteries

    By Anthony Everitt  August 28, 2019
    Drugs

    The Deafening Silence of a Pharmaceutical Company in the Face of the Opioid Crisis

    By John Halpern and David Blistein  August 28, 2019
    Baseball

    Teddy Roosevelt Hated Baseball

    By Ryan Swanson  August 27, 2019
    Reparations

    What Germany Can (and Can’t) Teach America About Reparations and Evil

    By Susan Neiman  August 27, 2019
    Guns

    Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

    By Chuck Augello  August 26, 2019
    Feminism

    Sady Doyle on the Man Who Insisted His Wife Was a Malevolent Fairy

    By Sady Doyle  August 26, 2019
    The Holocaust

    Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

    By Maria Tumarkin  August 26, 2019
    Immigration

    Suketu Mehta on Fighting
    Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Racist Populism in Trump’s America

    By Dylan Foley  August 23, 2019
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