• History

    The Hub

    Everything you need to know about the Sally Rooney/Israel controversy.

    By Walker Caplan  October 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Read this newly discovered 1949 Ann Petry essay about Harlem.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  October 12, 2021
    Plagiarism

    Dorland v. Larson: On the Legal Disputes at the Heart of “Bad Art Friend”

    By Steven Wright  October 12, 2021
    Keen On

    Kyle Harper on the Global History of Infectious Disease

    By Keen On  October 12, 2021
    Refugees

    The Grief of Displacement: On Being a Child in a Refugee Camp

    By Mondiant Dogon with Jenna Krajeski  October 12, 2021
    Keen On

    Jennifer Higgie on the Forgotten Perspective of Women in Art

    By Keen On  October 12, 2021
    Country Music

    Kelefa Sanneh: What Actually is “Country Music”?

    By Kelefa Sanneh  October 8, 2021
    Jewish History

    Community and Care: On Squirrel Hill and the Tree of Life Shooting

    By Mark Oppenheimer  October 8, 2021
    Keen On

    Matthew Pearl on the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America

    By Keen On  October 8, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    The Heavy History of Names: On Political Forgetting and Erasure in India

    By Manan Ahmed Asif  October 8, 2021
    New Books Network

    Cadwell Turnbull on the Social Realities Behind Speculative Fiction

    By New Books Network  October 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Instead of acting like Kidney Person, be more like these 19th-century literary haters.

    By Walker Caplan  October 7, 2021
    On Racism

    Colin Kaepernick on the Link Between Abolition and Black Liberation

    By Colin Kaepernick  October 7, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Evan Osnos on Collective Intervention and Moments of Social Transition

    By Just the Right Book   October 7, 2021
    Nature Writing

    How the Word “Landscape” Helped Change Americans’ Relationship to Nature

    By Tyler Green  October 7, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    Peddlers, Bakers, Wool-Sorters: The Economic History of Women in Angoulême

    By Emma Rothschild  October 7, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Elizabeth Wetmore and Kathryn Nuernberger on SB8, the History of Abortion, and Roe v. Wade in Danger

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 7, 2021
    The Hub

    On the mysterious obscenity scribbled on John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath manuscript.

    By Walker Caplan  October 5, 2021
    The Hub

    Astronomers have determined the exact hour that Mary Shelley thought of Frankenstein.

    By Emily Temple  October 5, 2021
    Black Lives Matter

    How the Killing of George Floyd Reflects America’s Repeated History of Racism and Police Brutality

    By Curtis Bunn  October 5, 2021
    News and Culture

    On Constancia de la Mora and the Plight of Writers in Exile

    By Soledad Fox Maura  October 4, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Jack Dash and Luke Swenson on Ecologies that Resist Borders

    By Emergence Magazine  October 4, 2021
    Keen On

    Janine di Giovanni on the End of Christianity in Its Historical Homeland

    By Keen On  October 4, 2021
    Food History

    When Life Gives You Lemons, It’s a Status Symbol: On the Evolving Literary and Cultural History of Citrus

    By Jean Huang  October 1, 2021
    Pirates

    On the Ebb and Flow of 21st-Century Maritime Piracy

    By Bruce Jones  October 1, 2021
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