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

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

A Close Reading of Christie's 80th book, Passenger to Frankfurt, by Slavoj Žižek

By Slavoj Žižek | September 9, 2019

On the Unlikely Extremes of Maoist Influence on the West

On the Unlikely Extremes of Maoist Influence on the West

Left-Wing Rebels, Civil Rights Fighters, and the Cult of Mao
in the 1960s and 70s

By Julia Lovell | September 5, 2019

Prince Albert's Dream of an Industrial Britain

Prince Albert's Dream of an Industrial Britain

Building Up to the Great Exhibition of 1851, the World's
First World Fair

By A.N. Wilson | September 5, 2019

The Monster That Drew Crowds to a Small Midwestern Town

The Monster That Drew Crowds to a Small Midwestern Town

Let Us Now Hear the Tale of the Hodag

By B.J. Hollars | September 4, 2019

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

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

Why Can't We Look Away from the Worst of Humanity?

By Aimee Knight | September 3, 2019

Jenny Odell: Our Vision of 'Productivity' is Way Too Narrow

Jenny Odell: Our Vision of 'Productivity' is Way Too Narrow

The Author of How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | August 29, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Tracking Down My Literary Idol to a San Francisco Commune

By Philippe Aronson | August 28, 2019

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

By Anthony Everitt | August 28, 2019

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

By John Halpern and David Blistein | August 28, 2019

Teddy Roosevelt Hated Baseball

Teddy Roosevelt Hated Baseball

It Was a Struggle to Even Get the President to Go to a Game

By Ryan Swanson | August 27, 2019

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

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

Susan Neiman on Lessons of History We Still Haven't Learned

By Susan Neiman | August 27, 2019

Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

“I wouldn’t have one of the motherfuckers in my house for anything.”

By Chuck Augello | August 26, 2019

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

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

When the Only Explanation for a Powerful Woman is Dark Magic

By Sady Doyle | August 26, 2019

Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

On Being Jewish in Poland After WWII

By Maria Tumarkin | August 26, 2019

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

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

The Author of This Land is Our Land in Conversation with Dylan Foley

By Dylan Foley | August 23, 2019

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: History

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: History

Travel from the Medieval Era and Postwar Britain to
Present-Day America

By Literary Hub | August 22, 2019

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