• History

    Emergence Magazine

    Bathsheba Demuth on the Changing Landscapes of the Arctic Circle

    By Emergence Magazine  September 27, 2021
    The Hub

    I’m still thinking about the boy who legally changed his name to “Trout Fishing in America.”

    By Walker Caplan  September 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s how Pablo Neruda’s funeral became a left-wing demonstration.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Now you can browse F. Scott Fitzgerald’s papers, including Gatsby manuscripts, online.

    By Walker Caplan  September 24, 2021
    Sex

    Centuries Before Fifty Shades, A Runaway Hit About Kinky Sex

    By Leigh Cowart  September 24, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Climate Change is Here… So How Do We Adapt?

    By Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani  September 24, 2021
    New Books Network

    P. Djèlí Clark on Imagining an Anti-Colonial 1900s Cairo

    By New Books Network  September 24, 2021
    Open Source

    How Can We Recapture the Ambition and Hope of the Space-Race Days?

    By Open Source  September 24, 2021
    European History

    On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette

    By Nancy Goldstone  September 23, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 23, 2021
    Aristocracy

    On the End of Debutante “Presentation Parties” at Buckingham Palace

    By Adrian Tinniswood  September 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Sathnam Sanghera on Modern Britain’s Imperialistic Foundations

    By Keen On  September 23, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Napoleon by Ruth Scurr, read by Tanya Cubric

    By Behind the Mic   September 23, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Séan Scullion on the Spanish Volunteers that Fought with the British Army During the Second World War

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 23, 2021
    Art

    “Paris is Paris. There is But One.” On Van Gogh’s Painterly Relationship to France

    By Gloria Fossi  September 22, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Kay Ryan’s hilarious, lacerating first-person reporting on AWP.

    By Walker Caplan  September 21, 2021
    American Presidents

    On the Difficulty of Remaining Anonymous When You’re the First President of the United States

    By Nathaniel Philbrick  September 20, 2021
    The Holocaust

    Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

    By David Rieff  September 20, 2021
    Poetry

    What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State

    By Aruni Kashyap  September 20, 2021
    Queer History

    Telling the Real Story Behind the AIDS Panic in a Small Florida Town

    By Steven Reigns  September 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Proof goth is not dead: A first edition of Frankenstein just set a world auction record.

    By Walker Caplan  September 17, 2021
    Literary History

    “The Voltaire of Central Park West.” On Herman Mankiewicz’s Early Days at the Algonquin Round Table

    By Nick Davis  September 17, 2021
    American History

    Lessons Not Yet Learned: How Post-Civil War Reconstruction Never Ended

    By Eric Foner  September 17, 2021
    Imperialism

    How a Valencian Knight—Along with Chaucer—Influenced the Culture of Conquistadores

    By Fernando Cervantes  September 17, 2021
    Chinese History

    How Ancient Chinese Philosophical Frameworks Dictated the Politics of Water

    By Giulio Boccaletti  September 17, 2021
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