• History

    Activism

    How the Great Dorothy Day’s Anger Was an Expression of Her Faith

    By Kaya Oakes  November 30, 2021
    Literary History

    The Italian Electrical Scientist Who (May Have) Inspired Frankenstein

    By Timothy J. Jorgensen  November 30, 2021
    Arab Literature

    How Did the Arab Spring Change Fiction?

    By Talya Zax  November 29, 2021
    Book Dreams

    On the Life of Belle da Costa Greene, Visionary Librarian and Democratizer of Museums

    By Book Dreams  November 29, 2021
    Keen On

    Roderick Beaton on the Greek Revolution of 1821

    By Keen On  November 29, 2021
    Civil Rights

    We Shall Overcome: John Lewis on the Symbolism of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Urgency of the Civil Rights Movement

    By John Lewis  November 24, 2021
    Folk Music

    How Black Spiritual Songs Gave Rise to New Musical Genres

    By Joseph Horowitz  November 24, 2021
    Journalism

    Revisiting Hunter S. Thompson’s Weird, Brief Stint as a Local Sports Editor

    By David S. Wills  November 23, 2021
    Language

    In Search of Words for the Most Obscure Sorrows

    By John Koenig  November 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Nearly 200 video interviews with ACT UP New York members are now available online.

    By Walker Caplan  November 22, 2021
    Conspiracies

    What Bob Dylan Does—Or Doesn’t—Know About the Assassination of JFK

    By Jefferson Morley  November 22, 2021
    Spirituality

    Why Black Women Teachers Should Cultivate and Protect Their Spirituality

    By Cynthia B. Dillard  November 22, 2021
    The Hub

    On the influential librarian who hated Goodnight Moon.

    By Walker Caplan  November 19, 2021
    Keen On

    Aviva Chomsky on Why Climate Justice Is Just As Important as Science

    By Keen On  November 19, 2021
    The Hub

    EXCLUSIVE: Watch Kurt Vonnegut Recall Entering Dresden as a POW

    By Jonny Diamond  November 18, 2021
    Christianity

    How Christian Leaders Made the Case for the Crusades as an Act of… Love?

    By Richard Firth-Godbehere  November 18, 2021
    Russian Literature

    What Does It Mean To Be Russian? On Dostoevsky’s Early Literary Ambitions

    By Kevin Birmingham  November 18, 2021
    Myth

    Chasing Legends Down Colombia’s Mythic River Magdalena

    By Jordan Salama  November 18, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Joshua Ferris on Why the Family is the Perfect Site for a Novel to Develop

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 18, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    Do You Remember The Start of Quarantine? Are You Sure?

    By Charles Finch  November 18, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Kati Marton on the Transformative Power of Angela Merkel

    By Just the Right Book   November 18, 2021
    Keen On

    Kevin Birmingham on How Dostoevsky Came to Write Crime and Punishment

    By Keen On  November 18, 2021
    American Presidents

    On the Black Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Uncovering the Origins of Family Lore

    By Gayle Jessup White  November 18, 2021
    European History

    How the Greek Struggle for Liberty Became a Cause Célèbre for Romantic Writers Across Europe

    By Mark Mazower  November 17, 2021
    Keen On

    William Deresiewicz on David Graeber’s Alternative Anthropologies

    By Keen On  November 17, 2021
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