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On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a<br> Post-Truth Age

On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
Post-Truth Age

Jana Prikryl and Joanna Kavenna in Conversation

By Joanna Kavenna | October 25, 2019

On Debbie D, One of Hip-Hop's Legendary Pioneers

On Debbie D, One of Hip-Hop's Legendary Pioneers

Kathy Iandoli Reflects on the Women Who Succeeded in a Male-Dominated Music Scene

By Kathy Iandoli | October 25, 2019

For So Many Cultures, the Key to Understanding Death is a Festival of Light

For So Many Cultures, the Key to Understanding Death is a Festival of Light

Sasha Sagan on Finding Hope in the Night Sky

By Sasha Sagan | October 24, 2019

How Napoleon's Italian Exile Set the Stage for His Return to Power

How Napoleon's Italian Exile Set the Stage for His Return to Power

On Elba, the Ousted General Was Compared to Robinson Crusoe

By Mark Braude | October 24, 2019

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

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Exploring the Forgotten Writerly Playground of the European Aristocracy

By Orlando Figes | October 23, 2019

The Trial of Harry Houdini

By Joe Posnanski | October 22, 2019

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

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

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

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

From William Dalrymple's Cundill Prize-Nominated The Anarchy

By William Dalrymple | October 21, 2019

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

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

From Hemingway to Mencken, No One Thought a Woman Could Write About Combat

By Rebecca Onion | October 21, 2019

The Diplomatic Gambit That Opened Cuba Up to the World

The Diplomatic Gambit That Opened Cuba Up to the World

How Castro Unintentionally Galvanized a Generation of Cubans

By Victor Andres Triay | October 21, 2019

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

Orwell's Notes on 1984: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

objective truth."">"The nightmare feeling caused by the disappearance of
objective truth."

By D.J. Taylor | October 18, 2019

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