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

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

Carl Phillips on Who's Winning the Oldest Annual Literary Award in America

By Carl Phillips | October 23, 2019

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

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

The Post-Eastern Bloc Generation Confronts the Past

By Diane Simmons | October 23, 2019

Exploring the Forgotten Writerly Playground of the European Aristocracy

Exploring the Forgotten Writerly Playground of the European Aristocracy

Destination Baden: Hot Baths, Good Conversation, and a Lot of Gambling

By Orlando Figes | October 23, 2019

The Trial of Harry Houdini

The Trial of Harry Houdini

When the Great Escape Artist Was Arrested in Germany for Fraud

By Joe Posnanski | October 22, 2019

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

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

The New Punk Generation Made the Hippies Look Past Their Prime

By Lincoln A. Mitchell | October 22, 2019

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Martha Cooley on the Vajont Disaster, Julio Cortazar, and the Strange Power of Serendipity

By Martha Cooley | October 21, 2019

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

By William Dalrymple | October 21, 2019

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

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The Diplomatic Gambit That Opened Cuba Up to the World

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From Burning Man to Industrial Rome, Gift-Giving as Ritualized, Collective Offering

From Burning Man to Industrial Rome, Gift-Giving as Ritualized, Collective Offering

Lewis Hyde on the Anniversary of His Bestselling Book The Gift

By Lewis Hyde | October 21, 2019

Murder in Paradise: The Tale of the Baroness and the Bohemians

Murder in Paradise: The Tale of the Baroness and the Bohemians

Mars van Grunsven Visits Galapagos, Then and Now

By Mars van Grunsven | October 18, 2019

Orwell's Notes on <em>1984</em>: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

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objective truth."">"The nightmare feeling caused by the disappearance of
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By D.J. Taylor | October 18, 2019

The Role of Librarians in a Historical Age of Obsession

The Role of Librarians in a Historical Age of Obsession

Mark Purcell on European Bibliomania and Libraries in the 18th and 19th Centuries

By Mark Purcell | October 18, 2019

Rebecca Solnit: Life Under the First Thousand Days of Donald Trump

Rebecca Solnit: Life Under the First Thousand Days of Donald Trump

When We Talk About "Surviving," Who is "We"?

By Rebecca Solnit | October 17, 2019

Tim O'Brien: Where is Our Allegiance to the “Toneless Dead”?

Tim O'Brien: Where is Our Allegiance to the “Toneless Dead”?

On the Scars of War and the Bonds of Vietnam

By Tim O'Brien | October 17, 2019

How Do We Preserve the Vanishing Foods of the Earth?

How Do We Preserve the Vanishing Foods of the Earth?

Apples, Blue Honeysuckles, and the Soviet Seed Collector Who Protected the Earth's Biodiversity

By Lenore Newman | October 15, 2019

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