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Jennifer Egan Makes Friends Across Seven Decades (and Countless Letters)

Jennifer Egan Makes Friends Across Seven Decades (and Countless Letters)

The Author of Manhattan Beach on the Intimacy of Historical Research

By Jennifer Egan | October 19, 2017

On the Literary Wheelings and Dealings of Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain

On the Literary Wheelings and Dealings of Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain

The World of Publishing, Unchanged for 150 Years

By Ron Chernow | October 17, 2017

Mark Twain, Cocaine Kingpin?

Mark Twain, Cocaine Kingpin?

"I never was great in matters of detail"

By Alan Pell Crawford | October 16, 2017

How a History of Two Pet Chameleons Made a Case for the Animal Soul

How a History of Two Pet Chameleons Made a Case for the Animal Soul

On Madeleine de Scudéry’s History of “The Most Beautiful Animal in the World”

By Peter Sahlins | October 6, 2017

10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)

10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)

A Brief History of Bibliocide

By Emily Temple | October 4, 2017

The Mess We're In: On the Inevitability of Post-Cold War Chaos

The Mess We're In: On the Inevitability of Post-Cold War Chaos

Historian Odd Arne Westad Wonders if it Could Have Been Different

By Odd Arne Westad | September 28, 2017

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Speaking Truth to Power is as American as Apple Pie

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By Peter Cozzens | September 21, 2017

When Chicago Was the Real Literary Capital of the United States

When Chicago Was the Real Literary Capital of the United States

According to H. L. Mencken, Anyway

By Liesl Olson | September 18, 2017

From High School to Vietnam, Waiting for the Fight to Begin

From High School to Vietnam, Waiting for the Fight to Begin

Echo Company Waits for War, on the Eve of the Tet Offensive

By Doug Stanton | September 18, 2017

American Xenophobia: Each Generation Must Write the Wrongs of History

American Xenophobia: Each Generation Must Write the Wrongs of History

Veronica Esposito on the Legacy and Lessons of Japanese Internment

By Veronica Esposito | September 18, 2017

To Abolish the Chinese Language: On a Century of Reformist Rhetoric

To Abolish the Chinese Language: On a Century of Reformist Rhetoric

Thomas S. Mullaney on Theories of Chinese Modernization

By Thomas S. Mullaney | September 15, 2017

Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the Meaning of

Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the Meaning of "Survivor"

“There is No Payment That Could Begin to Make Up for Any of It”

By Elizabeth Rosner | September 15, 2017

The Deadliest Weapon of War That Was Never Actually Used

The Deadliest Weapon of War That Was Never Actually Used

Part Two of the Life and Times of James B. Conant: The Chemical Weapons Arms Race

By Jennet Conant | September 13, 2017

Drinking With Stalin on Christmas: An American in Moscow at the Dawn of the Cold War

Drinking With Stalin on Christmas: An American in Moscow at the Dawn of the Cold War

Part One of the Life and Times of James B. Conant

By Jennet Conant | September 12, 2017

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