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

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

When You Party Too Hard After Conquering the World

By Anthony Everitt | August 28, 2019

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

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

Purdue Pharma's Response: Too Little and Too Late

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

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Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

By Maria Tumarkin | August 26, 2019

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

By Dylan Foley | August 23, 2019

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: History

By Literary Hub | August 22, 2019

The Feints and Jabs of Polari, <br> Britain's Gay Slang

The Feints and Jabs of Polari,
Britain's Gay Slang

On a Classic Argot of Gossip and Drag

By Paul Baker | August 22, 2019

Rich Cohen on the First Gangster of New York City

Rich Cohen on the First Gangster of New York City

The Author of The Last Pirate of New York on Just the Right Book
with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | August 22, 2019

For Wittgenstein, Philosophy Had to Be as Complicated as the Knots it Unties

For Wittgenstein, Philosophy Had to Be as Complicated as the Knots it Unties

Making Sense of Nonsense, From Bertrand Russell to the Existentialists

By Jonathan Rée | August 21, 2019

On Victor Hugo's Posthumous Career as a Religious Prophet

On Victor Hugo's Posthumous Career as a Religious Prophet

How The Author of Les Misérables Became a Fixture of Cao Dai

By Abby Walthausen | August 21, 2019

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

Bookish Ambition! Awkward Gentleness! Goth Sexiness! He Had It All

By Boze Herrington | August 21, 2019

The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

Charles Postel on the Temperance Crusade That Galvanized the American Women's Movement

By Charles Postel | August 21, 2019

At the Birth of Surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913

At the Birth of Surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913

On Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, and the Hothouse of Parisian Art

By Sue Roe | August 20, 2019

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