• History

    Reading Women

    When Incarceration Comes Home: On Prison “Reforms” That Still Do Harm

    By Reading Women  September 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Remember the Dante’s Inferno video game (and its deranged gonzo marketing)?

    By Walker Caplan  September 14, 2021
    Fairy Tales

    Is the Original Pinocchio Actually About Lying and Very Long Noses?

    By John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna  September 14, 2021
    Xenophobia

    How Richard Wright Grappled with Behaviorism, Racism, and Trauma in Native Son

    By George Makari  September 14, 2021
    Feminism

    Why an Early Feminist Advocated for the Right to Divorce

    By Luisa Capetillo  September 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Read the 1985 comic strip that inspired the Bechdel Test.

    By Walker Caplan  September 13, 2021
    Classics

    Seeking a More Tranquil Mind? Take Horace’s Advice

    By Alan Jacobs  September 13, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Charles Foster on Communion with the More-Than-Human and the Limits of Language

    By Emergence Magazine  September 13, 2021
    Family History

    Triumph and Tragedy: On Being a Mets Fan… and Being a Mankiewicz

    By Nick Davis  September 13, 2021
    9/11

    City of Ash: Photographing New York City on the Morning of 9/11

    By Rachel Cobb  September 11, 2021
    9/11

    On How New Yorkers Turned to Poetry After 9/11

    By Dennis Johnson  September 10, 2021
    War

    “I Would Not Take Prisoners.” Tolstoy’s Case Against Making War Humane

    By Samuel Moyn  September 10, 2021
    9/11

    9/11 and Everything After: On Bearing Witness to History Through the Eyes of My Daughter

    By Sasha Sagan  September 10, 2021
    New Books Network

    S. Qiouyi Lu on Surveillance Technology, Experimental Narratives, and Neopronouns

    By New Books Network  September 10, 2021
    9/11

    From the Fall of the Towers to Building Anew

    By Joe Woolhead  September 10, 2021
    9/11

    Remembering the Marine Workers Who Ferried New Yorkers to Safety on 9/11

    By Jessica DuLong  September 10, 2021
    WWII

    How the History of German-Jewish Refugee Soldiers During WWII Shaped My Novel

    By Ellen Feldman  September 10, 2021
    Family Histories

    The Three Women of Bronzeville: On Finding Safety in My Mother, Grandmother, and Aunt

    By Dawn Turner  September 10, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Les Standiford on Why the Circus Is Key to Understanding Who We Are

    By The Literary Life  September 10, 2021
    The Hub

    Read the love poem that went viral . . . in ancient Greece.

    By Walker Caplan  September 9, 2021
    Indigenous Peoples

    How Native Basketball Challenged Colonial Hegemony and Rejected Conformity

    By Abe Streep  September 9, 2021
    Nature

    Amanita Muscaria, the Real Life Mushroom We Know From Disney Movies

    By Aliya Whiteley  September 9, 2021
    Keen On

    Philip Stephens on Not-So-Great Britain

    By Keen On  September 9, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg’s Early Days

    By Just the Right Book   September 9, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Beyond the West: On the Second Sino-Japanese War

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 9, 2021
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