• History

    Labor

    The Original Pinocchio Is a Radical Anti-Work Story

    By Alessandro Delfanti  January 6, 2023
    Fascism

    We Can’t Do It: How Women’s Contributions to Fighting Fascism Were Forgotten

    By Natasha Lester  January 6, 2023
    Socialism

    A Brief History of American Socialism

    By Michael Kazin  January 5, 2023
    Fascism

    How Mussolini’s Legacy Lives on in Both the Public and Private Spheres

    By Andrea Bajani  January 5, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    On Transforming Oral History Into Historical Fiction

    By Aanchal Malhotra  January 4, 2023
    On Craft

    On Authenticity, Research, and Writing From the Diaspora

    By V.V. Ganeshananthan  January 4, 2023
    Keen On

    Remembering a London of 1946 in which Fearsome Female Gangsters Ran the Show

    By Keen On  January 4, 2023
    Read This Watch That

    What to Read Before and After Seeing James Baldwin Abroad

    By Literary Hub  January 3, 2023
    Keen On

    How to Escape the Culture-War Paranoia That Has Infected American Politics Since the Sixties

    By Keen On  December 31, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Watergate Will Never Die: The Moral Lessons of One of Nixon’s White House Plumbers

    By Keen On  December 28, 2022
    European History

    From Florentine Orphan to French Princess: The Early Years of Catherine de Medici

    By Estelle Paranque  December 22, 2022
    Protest

    How World War II Pacifists Laid the Foundation for Future Struggles

    By Daniel Akst  December 21, 2022
    Poets

    Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

    By Heather Cass White  December 20, 2022
    Fascism

    Reading Ezra Pound in the Neofascist Age of Trump

    By Tom Rea  December 20, 2022
    Fashion

    Meet the Nonconformist Designer Who Revolutionized 1960s Fashion

    By Federico Chiara  December 19, 2022
    Rare Books

    What Happened to the Rare Books Brought Aboard the Titanic?

    By Emma Smith  December 19, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, Featuring Michael Knight

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 15, 2022
    Literary History

    How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

    By Nino Strachey  December 15, 2022
    American History

    How Community Organizers and Business Leaders Came Together to Improve Bedford-Stuyvesant

    By Franklin A. Thomas  December 15, 2022
    Space Travel

    How Victorian England Put Men on the Moon… Or Not

    By Iwan Rhys Morus  December 14, 2022
    Cities

    The Lingering Weight of Race and Policing in One Cincinnati Neighborhood

    By Nick Swartsell  December 14, 2022
    Hong Kong

    An Indelible City, Indelibly Marked: On Hong Kong’s History of Resistance

    By Jerrine Tan  December 13, 2022
    Crime

    How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Into the Mythical “G-Men”

    By Beverly Gage  December 12, 2022
    Keen On

    The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

    By Keen On  December 12, 2022
    Keen On

    What the Early 20th-Century War on Radical Workers Tells Us About the Struggle Between Labor and Capital in America Today

    By Keen On  December 9, 2022
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