• History

    Life in a Pandemic

    Lessons From Shakespeare: How to Survive a Pandemic with Humor

    By Allie Esiri  December 23, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Poet Moez Surani on the Language of War

    By How to Proceed   December 23, 2020
    Keen On

    When the White Working Class Turned Against Liberalism

    By Keen On  December 23, 2020
    Literary Theory

    What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

    By H. Aram Veeser and Jane Gallop  December 23, 2020
    Lit Crit

    What Elites Got Wrong About Mary McCarthy’s The Group

    By Apoorva Tadepalli  December 22, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    How We Talk About the Boys Club of NASA’s Apollo Program

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   December 22, 2020
    Keen On

    On 1979 and the Unraveling of the Modern Middle East

    By Keen On  December 21, 2020
    Poetry

    Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
    Chicano Poetry

    By Lorna Dee Cervantes  December 21, 2020
    The History of Literature

    Rewriting the American Canon with The Book of Firsts

    By History of Literature  December 21, 2020
    Technology

    On Artificial Intelligence, White Supremacy, and the Military-Industrial Complex

    By Yarden Katz  December 18, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Fascinating History of Intersectionality in the Medieval World

    By New Books Network  December 18, 2020
    Anthropology

    Was Stonehenge Just the Inner Part of a Huge Wooden Temple?

    By Roland Ennos  December 18, 2020
    Colonialism

    How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

    By Alan Mikhail  December 17, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess’s Absurd Mission to Broker Peace

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   December 17, 2020
    The West

    That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in
    New Mexico

    By Ken Layne  December 16, 2020
    Illness

    Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf’s Writings About Illness
    and Disability

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2020
    Ghosts!

    The Restless Ghost Stories
    of M. R. James

    By Adam Scovell  December 15, 2020
    Classical Music

    How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

    By Jan Swafford  December 15, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Inertia of Whiteness in the World of Postwar Publishing

    By Richard Jean So  December 15, 2020
    Country Music

    On the Willie Nelson Country-Pop Crossover That Changed Everything

    By Michaelangelo Matos  December 14, 2020
    Keen On

    How Newt Gingrich and His Band of Grifters Made Politics Into Entertainment

    By Keen On  December 14, 2020
    Women's Rights

    When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

    By Melvin I. Urofsky  December 14, 2020
    On Translation

    On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

    By Damiano Abeni  December 14, 2020
    Keen On

    How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today’s Republican Party

    By Keen On  December 11, 2020
    Black Arts

    Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham on Social Media, Black Futurity,
    and the Archive

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 11, 2020
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