• History

    Language

    How the World’s Languages Evolved Over Time

    By Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater  March 29, 2022
    Tycoons

    The Tumultuous Marriage of the American “Empress of Journalism” and Oscar Wilde’s Feckless Brother

    By Betsy Prioleau  March 29, 2022
    American Politics

    How the Democrats Ditched Economic Populism for Neoliberalism

    By Michael Kazin  March 28, 2022
    Open Source

    Lessons Learned from a Tyrant’s Unspeakable War on Ukraine

    By Open Source  March 25, 2022
    Keen On

    Shadows of WWII in Ukraine: The Life and Afterlife the Second World War

    By Andrew Keen  March 25, 2022
    Refugees

    How Aborted Journeys Mean Aborted Dreams for Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean

    By Sally Hayden  March 24, 2022
    Queer Culture

    “We Straddle the Now and the Ether.” On Black Gay Time

    By Jafari S. Allen  March 24, 2022
    Just the Right Book

    Nick Davis on Writing Himself Into a Biography–And Taking Himself Out

    By Just the Right Book   March 24, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    What Was More Deadly to a WWII Soldier, a Bullet or the Bacteria on It?

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   March 24, 2022
    The Hub

    The Dutch publisher of a controversial new book on Anne Frank is dropping it.

    By Corinne Segal  March 23, 2022
    Counterculture

    The Logistical Challenges of a Supersize Acid Test: On the Merry Pranksters’ Trips Festival

    By John Markoff  March 23, 2022
    Shame

    How Public Shaming Helps Society Maintain Its Norms and Ethical Standards

    By Cathy O'Neil  March 22, 2022
    Historical Fiction

    Karen Joy Fowler on Decentering John Wilkes Booth in a Novel About His Family

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 22, 2022
    Ancient Rome

    How Ancient Rome’s Descent Into Autocracy Mirrors the Fragility of Our Own Political Systems

    By Barry Strauss  March 22, 2022
    Censorship

    The Subtle Authoritarianism of Southeast Asia’s Wealthiest City-State

    By Jeevan Vasagar  March 21, 2022
    The Hub

    Researchers are mapping the effects of climate change on Walden Pond—with help from Thoreau.

    By Walker Caplan  March 18, 2022
    War Reporting

    The Essential Value—and Deep Cost—of Reporting From War

    By Dan O'Brien  March 18, 2022
    Cities

    Telling the Story of (the Real) Greenwich Village

    By Michele Herman  March 18, 2022
    Ukraine

    “War shortens the distance from person to person, from birth to death.” New Work by Ukrainian Poet Halyna Kruk

    By Literary Hub  March 17, 2022
    Feminism

    What an Ecofeminist Pioneer Can Teach Us Today

    By Myriam Bahaffou and Julie Gorecki  March 17, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Scott Anderson on What Russia’s Wars in Chechnya Tell Us about the Invasion of Ukraine

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 17, 2022
    Memoir

    Telling the Stories of the Wrongly Incarcerated

    By Phoebe Zerwick  March 17, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On the Second Battle of Kiev, 1943

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   March 17, 2022
    The Civil War

    How the North Beat the South, Morally and Economically

    By Roger Lowenstein  March 16, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Bad Men Join Motorcycle Gangs and How To Take Them Down

    By Keen On  March 16, 2022
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