The Inertia of Whiteness in the World of Postwar Publishing

The Inertia of Whiteness in the World of Postwar Publishing

"Big Manhattan book publishers publish hundreds of authors each year, but in their eyes, only a very few really matter."

By Richard Jean So | December 15, 2020

On the Willie Nelson Country-Pop Crossover That Changed Everything

On the Willie Nelson Country-Pop Crossover That Changed Everything

Michaelangelo Matos Goes Deep on One of 1980s Biggest Duets

By Michaelangelo Matos | December 14, 2020

How Newt Gingrich and His Band of Grifters Made Politics Into Entertainment

How Newt Gingrich and His Band of Grifters Made Politics Into Entertainment

Julian E. Zelizer Talks to Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 14, 2020

When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

Melvin I. Urofsky on the Living History of Affirmative Action in America

By Melvin I. Urofsky | December 14, 2020

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

Damiano Abeni: Transforming Texts as a Performing Art

By Damiano Abeni | December 14, 2020

How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today's Republican Party

How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today's Republican Party

Rick Perlstein Talks to Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 11, 2020

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What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

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Patrick Wright on the Final Years of a Wandering Writer

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Civil Rights Activist George M. Houser Worked with the Greats of the 20th Century

From Anticolonial Movements to Black American Civil Rights to South African Apartheid

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I Wrote a Tragic Novel About the 1918 Flu. 14 Years Later, My Family Got COVID

I Wrote a Tragic Novel About the 1918 Flu. 14 Years Later, My Family Got COVID

Thomas Mullen: When the Fictional Veers Into the Real

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Memorializing History's Dark Corners With Absurdity

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Keith Lowe Visits Lithuania's Grutas Park

By Keith Lowe | December 10, 2020

The Private Lives of Shuttered Stores: On Abandoned Interiors

The Private Lives of Shuttered Stores: On Abandoned Interiors

Mark Hage Recounts the Origins of His Latest Book

By Mark Hage | December 10, 2020

The Problem of Comparing Allied and Axis Forces

The Problem of Comparing Allied and Axis Forces

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By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | December 10, 2020

Edith Vonnegut on the Love Letters of Kurt and Jane Vonnegut

Edith Vonnegut on the Love Letters of Kurt and Jane Vonnegut

"Jane recognized her husband’s tremendous talent and put her own dreams and ambitions aside."

By Edith Vonnegut | December 9, 2020

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