Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika

Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika

Mark Harman Considers the Striking Social Commentary of the Unfinished Novel

By Mark Harman | October 6, 2025

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | October 3, 2025

Here’s what’s making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | October 3, 2025

Any Coloradan with a cell phone will soon be able to access banned books for free.

Any Coloradan with a cell phone will soon be able to access banned books for free.

By Brittany Allen | October 2, 2025

Funeral For a Postponed Death: On Burying Argentina’s Disappeared

Funeral For a Postponed Death: On Burying Argentina’s Disappeared

Mariana Enriquez: “How beautiful cemeteries are.... Where the name and the date remain, a voice that says: I was here, now I’m gone.”

By Mariana Enriquez | October 2, 2025

Re(se)a(r)ching For Connection: Navigating the Fact and Fiction of Alien Abduction Stories

Re(se)a(r)ching For Connection: Navigating the Fact and Fiction of Alien Abduction Stories

Ilana Masad: “It’s in trying to reach beyond our limited selves that we are, I believe, most human.”

By Ilana Masad | October 2, 2025

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Who Was the Real, Historical Mary, Mother of Jesus?

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When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis

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How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

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What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

Martha A. Sandweiss Unearths the Hidden History Behind a Moment of Westward Expansion Preserved for Posterity

By Martha A. Sandweiss | September 29, 2025

Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library.

Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library.

By Brittany Allen | September 26, 2025

How Modern Life Has Been Shaped By the Power to Choose

How Modern Life Has Been Shaped By the Power to Choose

From Sophia Rosenfeld’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “The Age of Choice”

By Sophia Rosenfeld | September 26, 2025

How the German Peasants’ War Exposed 16th-Century Europe’s Fragile Foundations

How the German Peasants’ War Exposed 16th-Century Europe’s Fragile Foundations

From Lyndal Roper's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Summer of Fire and Blood”

By Lyndal Roper | September 25, 2025

From Leninism to Legalism: On the Ideological Evolution of Soviet Dissidents

From Leninism to Legalism: On the Ideological Evolution of Soviet Dissidents

From Benjamin Nathans's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause”

By Benjamin Nathans | September 24, 2025

Why are we so obsessed (lately) with TV shows about dying media?

Why are we so obsessed (lately) with TV shows about dying media?

By Brittany Allen | September 23, 2025

Bartolomé de las Casas, Witness to the Violent Conquest of the Americas

Bartolomé de las Casas, Witness to the Violent Conquest of the Americas

From Greg Grandin's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted "America, América"

By Greg Grandin | September 23, 2025

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