• History

    Excerpts

    When the Beatles Played Memphis,50 Years Ago Today

    By Jon Savage  August 19, 2016
    Essay

    My Grandfather, the French Resistance Fighter

    By Rachel Hall  August 19, 2016
    Essay

    How Does a Skeleton Become Famous?

    By Lydia Pyne  August 16, 2016
    Essay

    The Secret Love of Edith Wharton’s Life

    By Yvonne Georgina Puig  August 15, 2016
    Essay

    Reading the Partition of India

    By Anjali Enjeti  August 15, 2016
    Profile

    When a Descendent of Witch Hunters Writes a Novel About Salem

    By Matthew Daddona  August 8, 2016
    Feature

    The Untold Story of a Legendary Diane Arbus Photograph

    By James Sullivan  July 26, 2016
    Feature

    A Darke and Vicious Place: Conceptualizing the Vagina

    By Fay Bound Alberti  July 25, 2016
    Feature

    Using the Lies of Fiction to Get to the Truth of Apartheid

    By Michelle Pretorius  July 21, 2016
    Feature

    Reading and Writing My Way Through the AIDS Crisis

    By Matthew Cheney  July 20, 2016
    Feature

    Brief History of a Terror Attack: The Day That Changed Argentina

    By Ilan Stavans  July 18, 2016
    Excerpts

    Catching Wild Bill and Jane: The End of a Killing Spree in Panama

    By Nick Foster  July 13, 2016
    Excerpts

    What Happens When You Break Into America’s Nuclear Bomb Factory

    By Dan Zak  July 12, 2016
    Excerpts

    I Think I Will Get Hung, but I Don’t Care As Long As I Get Breakfast

    By Kate Summerscale  July 12, 2016
    Feature

    When Marcel Proust Was an Anxious Debut Novelist

    By William C. Carter  July 11, 2016
    Feature

    Cynthia Ozick on the Letters of Saul Bellow

    By Cynthia Ozick  July 6, 2016
    Feature

    The Genius of William Shawn, and the Invention of The New Yorker

    By David Remnick  July 5, 2016
    Feature

    On the Battle to Desegregate the Nation’s Libraries

    By Cynthia R. Greenlee  July 5, 2016
    Essay

    On the Comedy of History, and the Importance of a Good Joke

    By Christopher Bram  July 5, 2016
    Essay

    There Would Be No Fourth of July Without the Iroquois Nation

    By Bev Sellars  July 4, 2016
    Feature

    On the Fifth Anniversary of the Africa Writes Festival

    By Literary Hub  July 1, 2016
    Feature

    The Unyielding Rituals of Little Britain

    By Lit Hub Photography  June 29, 2016
    Archives

    Handwritten Letters from From Legendary American Artists

    By Mary Savig  June 23, 2016
    Essay

    America Was Never Class-Free

    By Nancy Isenberg  June 21, 2016
    History

    On the Anniversary of Ethel Rosenberg’s Execution

    By Jillian Cantor  June 20, 2016
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