• History

    Letters

    On the Mundane Letters of John Keats

    By Geoffrey D. Morrison  March 6, 2023
    Origins

    Countries Real and Imagined: Chris McCormick on Creating His Own Armenia

    By Chris McCormick  March 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Michael G. Long on Why Jackie Robinson’s Political Legacy is at Least as Important as His Sporting One

    By Keen On  March 6, 2023
    Exploration

    The Day Explorers Finally Found One of the World’s Great Lost Shipwrecks

    By Mensun Bound  March 3, 2023
    Queer History

    Yes, Sydney, Australia in the 1960s Was the Drag Capital of the World

    By Craig Seligman  March 3, 2023
    Medieval Literature

    The Brave Women Who Saved the Collected Texts of Hildegard of Bingen

    By Janina Ramirez  March 3, 2023
    What to Watch

    Of War and Capitalism: The Debate About All Quiet on the Western Front Goes All the Way Back to the Book

    By Bruce Krajewski  March 2, 2023
    Encyclopedias

    On the Evolution of the World’s Oldest Encyclopedia

    By Simon Garfield  March 1, 2023
    Reproductive Rights

    A Piece of Whalebone, a Butcher’s Shop, a Tailor: The Makings of A Pioneer Abortionist

    By Jennifer Wright  March 1, 2023
    Keen On

    Derek Leebaert on FDR’s Four Key Lieutenants and the World They Made

    By Keen On  March 1, 2023
    Philosophy

    When Rebellion Becomes Virtue: How the Scientific Method Came to Be

    By Carlo Rovelli  February 28, 2023
    Pseudoscience

    Spectacular Pseudoscience: The Fall and Rise of Bioelectricity

    By Sally Adee  February 28, 2023
    Ukraine

    When Russia Invaded Ukraine, My Family’s Past Became the Present

    By Megan Buskey  February 27, 2023
    Rock and Roll

    How Bob Dylan Became a Counterculture Icon

    By Aaron J. Leonard  February 27, 2023
    The Renaissance

    Sorry Michelangelo, Da Vinci Was the True Master of the Human Form in Art

    By Charles Freeman  February 27, 2023
    Politics

    In the Hour of War: Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky on Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry

    By Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky  February 24, 2023
    Research

    Research I’d Rather Not Have Done: Pandemics Then and Now

    By Lynn Cullen  February 24, 2023
    Keen On

    Erik Conway on How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

    By Keen On  February 24, 2023
    Keen On

    Paul Stephan: Is There a Crisis in the Knowledge Economy?

    By Keen On  February 24, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    James Stewart Talks Redstone Family Drama and Boardroom Backstabbing

    By Just the Right Book   February 23, 2023
    Reading

    How the Armed Services Editions Created a Nation of Readers

    By Brianna Labuskes  February 23, 2023
    Keen On

    Thomas Halliday Talks Paleobiology, Croquet, and the Inevitable End of Our Species

    By Keen On  February 23, 2023
    China

    How China’s Uyghurs Are Marginalized and Subjugated by the State

    By Gulchehra Hoja  February 23, 2023
    Keen On

    Jonathan Wilson on Whether Palestine Was a Jewish “State in Waiting” During the 1930s

    By Keen On  February 23, 2023
    Lit Hub Radio

    Emmanuel Iduma’s Reckoning with the Silence, Inheritance and History of the Nigerian Civil War

    By Keen On  February 23, 2023
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