• History

    Colonialism

    The Naturalist’s Gaze: What Charles Darwin Saw in Tahiti

    By Diana Preston  October 13, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    How Dostoevsky’s Classic Has Shaped Russia’s War in Ukraine, with Explaining Ukraine’s Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 13, 2022
    World War II

    How Hate-Fueled Misinformation and Propaganda Grew in Nazi Germany

    By Tom Dunkel  October 13, 2022
    Keen On

    What Made Samuel Adams Both the Most Essential and the Least Understood Founding Father

    By Keen On  October 13, 2022
    Classical Music

    There’s a Long History of Snobs Loving Classical Music—and Classical Musicians Loathing Them

    By Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch  October 13, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 13, 2022
    Illustration

    The Trailblazing Illustrator and Mountaineer Who Explored the Wild North

    By Pamela Henson  October 12, 2022
    Russian History

    How the Red Army’s Campaign of Terror Helped Cement Communist Control

    By Antony Beevor  October 12, 2022
    Keen On

    Confronting Colonial Amnesia: Dredging Up the Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    By Keen On  October 12, 2022
    On Translation

    On the Interpreters Whose Words Directed Chinese and British History

    By Henrietta Harrison  October 12, 2022
    Keen On

    That Fictional Summer in Berlin: When a British Aristocrat, and Her Camera, Revealed the Truth About the Nazi Regime

    By Keen On  October 12, 2022
    Sci-Fi

    How Women Writers Speculated Fictional Futures Free From Patriarchal Control

    By Lisa Yaszek  October 11, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    How Retelling Indigenous Histories Create a More Just Future

    By Emergence Magazine  October 11, 2022
    Keen On

    The Wisdom of the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth

    By Keen On  October 11, 2022
    Micro

    Reza Aslan: How to Become a Nation of Baskervilles

    By Micro   October 11, 2022
    Keen On

    What Progressives Can Learn From the Failure of the American State to Address the Legacy of Slavery After the Civil War

    By Keen On  October 11, 2022
    Keen On

    Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control

    By Keen On  October 7, 2022
    Audiobook Break

    Playwright Jeanne Sakata and Attorneys from the Korematsu v. United States Case Discuss For Us All

    By Audiobook Break  October 7, 2022
    Palestine

    Forbidden Cities: How Palestinians Manage To Cross Occupation Lines

    By Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri  October 6, 2022
    Just the Right Book

    David Dennis, Jr.: Why American Civil Rights Activists Should Be Treated as War Veterans

    By Just the Right Book   October 6, 2022
    Sexuality

    Sex and the 16th Century: How John Donne Learned To Write Love Poetry

    By Katherine Rundell  October 5, 2022
    Colonialism

    “The land of the Mayombe doesn’t want us.” The Brutality and Folly of the Construction of the Congo-Océan Railroad

    By J. P. Daughton  October 5, 2022
    Etiquette

    The Pulse of American Life: On Emily Post’s Evolving Legacy

    By Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning  October 5, 2022
    Classics

    From Ovid to Hawthorne, on the Power and Possibility of Retelling Classic Stories

    By Laurie Lico Albanese  October 5, 2022
    Bookstores

    New York City’s Best Bookstore Storefronts: An Illustrated (Incomplete) List

    By David Dodge and Joel Holland  October 4, 2022
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