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What Does It Mean to Call an Idea American?

What Does It Mean to Call an Idea American?

On the Intellectual Genealogy of the United States

By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen | February 14, 2019

High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Does the History of Western Poetry Begin with Sheep?

By Michael Ursell | February 13, 2019

Beneath the Streets of Paris, in Search of the Cataphiles

Beneath the Streets of Paris, in Search of the Cataphiles

Revelry, Mayhem, and Illicit Movie Theaters, Under the City of Light

By Will Hunt | February 12, 2019

How Did So Many Writers Get Access to Opiates?

How Did So Many Writers Get Access to Opiates?

Mapping Addiction, From Cocteau to Burroughs

By Lucy Inglis | February 5, 2019

Poet, Artist, Erotic Muse of Mexico's Avant Garde: Rediscovering Nahui Olin

Poet, Artist, Erotic Muse of Mexico's Avant Garde: Rediscovering Nahui Olin

On the Life and Times of a True Iconoclast

By Claire Mullen | February 1, 2019

The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

On the Assassination of Ernst vom Rath by 17-Year-Old Herschel Grynszpan

By Stephen Koch | January 31, 2019

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A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

By Stephen Benz | January 30, 2019

Recipes and Wisdom from the Late, Great Ntozake Shange

By Ntozake Shange | January 29, 2019

Writing Absurdity in Zimbabwe's Contemporary Dystopia

By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma | January 29, 2019

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

Your First Clue: Her Nickname Was "the Goat"

By Emily Temple | January 25, 2019

My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald

My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald

"These were terrible hours, when we waited for our names to be called."

By Mark Mayer | January 25, 2019

A Brief Literary History of Davos

A Brief Literary History of Davos

Where Writer's Block is Cured, if Not Global Misfortune

By Isabelle Mayault | January 24, 2019

In Aristotle's Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

In Aristotle's Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

On the Virtues of "Civic Friendship"

By Edith Hall | January 23, 2019

David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian 'New' World

David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian 'New' World

Indigenous American Civilizations Are Far Older and More Complex Than History Suggests

By David Treuer | January 22, 2019

Did Diderot's Legacy Live Up To His Genius?

Did Diderot's Legacy Live Up To His Genius?

How the 18th-Century Philosopher Was Forgotten and Rediscovered

By Andrew S. Curran | January 18, 2019

The Temptations of Playing the Muse

The Temptations of Playing the Muse

On Love, Marriage, Charles Dickens, and Becoming the Writer I Needed to Be

By Samantha Silva | December 19, 2018

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