• History

    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    Read from the 2021 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

    By Literary Hub  October 19, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    On the Holocaust’s Impact on Survivors’ Early Childhood and Memory

    By Rebecca Clifford  October 19, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    “To Bob or Not to Bob?” Revolution and the “Modern Girl” of 20th-Century Asia

    By Tim Harper  October 19, 2021
    Colonialism

    Amitav Ghosh on the Lies of History and How the Natural World Fights Back

    By Ben Ehrenreich  October 18, 2021
    Keen On

    Mary Beard on What We Can Learn from Images of Roman Autocrats

    By Keen On  October 18, 2021
    Monsters

    “Its eyes were as large as a dinner plate…” Encounters with Dragons in Early America

    By Scott G. Bruce  October 18, 2021
    Neuroscience

    On the Historical Stigmatization and Persistent Vilification of Epilepsy in Literature

    By Louise Fein  October 18, 2021
    The Holocaust

    On Dr. Eduard Bloch, Hitler’s Family Physician (Who Happened to Be Jewish)

    By Meriel Schindler  October 18, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    “Unknitting Despair.” Catherine Bush on Reciprocity, Care, and Ecological Loss

    By Emergence Magazine  October 18, 2021
    Keen On

    Jean Becker on George H.W. Bush’s Life After Presidency

    By Keen On  October 18, 2021
    The Hub

    Solange has launched a community library of rare books and art by Black creators.

    By Walker Caplan  October 15, 2021
    The Hub

    “Dialogue reeketh, play stinketh.” The worst insults from reviews of The Iceman Cometh.

    By Walker Caplan  October 15, 2021
    Birds

    A Compendium of Literary Ravens

    By Angus Hyland and Caroline Roberts  October 15, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    “Homes, Workshops, Palaces, Shrines.” On the Portability and Mobility of Hordes

    By Marie Favereau  October 15, 2021
    Monarchy

    On Troublesome Women in the House of Windsor and the Allure of Royal Outsiders

    By Wendy Holden  October 15, 2021
    Keen On

    Vladimir Alexandrov on the Extraordinary Life of Boris Savinkov

    By Keen On  October 15, 2021
    History

    How Suzanne Valadon Reclaimed Her Image By Painting Herself Naked

    By Jennifer Higgie  October 15, 2021
    The Writer's Life

    “You Only Write if You Have To.“ On W.G. Sebald’s Life and Work

    By Carole Angier  October 14, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    “More Than a Fearful Refusal To Participate.“ On the Complexities of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion

    By Marjoleine Kars  October 14, 2021
    Opera

    How Opera Invented the Modern Fan

    By Alison Kinney  October 14, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On the Controversies of WWII Military Leader George S. Patton

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Remembering Harold Pinter’s anti-Iraq War Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

    By Walker Caplan  October 13, 2021
    Identity

    Tracing the Filipino Diaspora in the Arc of the Global Age: A Reading List

    By Albert Samaha  October 13, 2021
    Feminist History

    How NOW Attempted to Exclude the Third Woman’s Alliance From Feminist History

    By Patricia Romney  October 13, 2021
    Keen On

    Daniel Sokatch on the Chronicle of Israel and Palestine

    By Keen On  October 13, 2021
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