• History

    American History

    The “Mystic Inklings” and Savvy Business Acumen of Victoria Woodhull

    By Emily Midorikawa  May 20, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Katja Hoyer on Hitler’s Campaign for Office

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   May 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Roald Dahl’s secrets for writing children’s literature are officially up for auction.

    By Walker Caplan  May 19, 2021
    Literary History

    The Time I Watched Norman Mailer Try to Fight G. Gordon Liddy in the Street

    By James Grady  May 19, 2021
    The Jazz Age

    The Half-Truths of Harrison Post: Moneyed Magnate or Jazz Age Grifter?

    By Liz Brown  May 19, 2021
    Black History

    On the Origins of White Europeans’ Bigoted Fascination with Skin Color and Racial Hierarchy

    By Olivette Otele  May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Turns out Isaac Asimov, father of robotics, was also the father of 100 “lecherous limericks.”

    By Walker Caplan  May 18, 2021
    Economics

    On the Small Family Firm Responsible for So Much American Economic Power

    By Zachary Karabell  May 18, 2021
    Gentrification

    Protecting the “Holy City”
    of Williamsburg

    By Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper  May 18, 2021
    The Hub

    “All crazy, all sick, these musicians.” On Maeterlinck and Debussy’s fraught collaboration.

    By Walker Caplan  May 17, 2021
    The Hub

    Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald was the first writer to use the term “T-shirt”?

    By Emily Temple  May 17, 2021
    Philosophy

    What Stoic Philosophers Can Teach Us About Grief

    By Nancy Sherman  May 17, 2021
    Travel

    Evelyn Waugh’s twelve-bedroom house—complete with party barn—is now for sale.

    By Walker Caplan  May 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Apparently the Brontës all died so early because they spent their lives drinking graveyard water.

    By Emily Temple  May 14, 2021
    Jane Austen

    Pride and Property:
    On the Homes of Jane Austen

    By Phyllis Richardson  May 14, 2021
    Literary History

    How an Irish Barman Created a Home for New York’s Literary Elite

    By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack  May 14, 2021
    High Society

    A Brief History of the New York Times Wedding Announcements

    By Cate Doty  May 14, 2021
    Philosophy

    How Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s Relationship Can Inform Our Current Crises

    By Joshua Corey  May 13, 2021
    Ancient History

    Reimagining the Ancient World: A Reading List

    By Ian Dreiblatt  May 12, 2021
    Victorian Literature

    How Do You Write a Biography Filled With Unreliable Witnesses?

    By Emily Midorikawa  May 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Early Medieval English literature was a sordid swamp of wanton plagiarism!

    By Jonny Diamond  May 11, 2021
    Nordic Literature

    The Obsessive Scholar Who Rescued Iceland’s Ancient Literary Legacy

    By Egill Bjarnason  May 11, 2021
    Cities

    How Racism and Neglect Fueled the Rise of Gang Life in Denver

    By Julian Rubinstein  May 11, 2021
    The Hub

    About all those unproduced screenplays William Faulkner wrote . . .

    By Walker Caplan  May 10, 2021
    Organized Crime

    Reckoning with the Impact of the Camorra on My Family’s Livelihood

    By John Domini  May 10, 2021
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