• History

    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
    Biology

    Barry Lopez on the Wolf Biologist Who Changed His Life as an Environmentalist

    By Barry Lopez  December 11, 2020
    Antiquity

    What the World’s First Medical Records Tell Us About
    Ancient Life

    By Robin Lane Fox  December 11, 2020
    The Writing Life

    What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

    By Patrick Wright  December 11, 2020
    Civil Rights

    Civil Rights Activist George M. Houser Worked with the Greats of the 20th Century

    By Sheila D. Collins  December 11, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    I Wrote a Tragic Novel About the 1918 Flu. 14 Years Later, My Family Got COVID

    By Thomas Mullen  December 10, 2020
    European History

    Memorializing History’s Dark Corners With Absurdity

    By Keith Lowe  December 10, 2020
    New York City

    The Private Lives of Shuttered Stores: On Abandoned Interiors

    By Mark Hage  December 10, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Problem of Comparing Allied and Axis Forces

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   December 10, 2020
    Letters

    Edith Vonnegut on the Love Letters of Kurt and Jane Vonnegut

    By Edith Vonnegut  December 9, 2020
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