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Evergreen words to live by, from Alice Dunbar Nelson.

Evergreen words to live by, from Alice Dunbar Nelson.

By Katie Yee | July 19, 2022

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

Ash Davidson on Now in November

By Ash Davidson | July 19, 2022

How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

John Wood Sweet on Sex, Love and Rape Culture in Early America

By John Wood Sweet | July 19, 2022

How Trying to Find a Cure For Scurvy Led to the Gimlet

How Trying to Find a Cure For Scurvy Led to the Gimlet

On Limey and Limes on British Royal Navy ships

By Camper English | July 19, 2022

Searching For a Lost Medieval City Somewhere in Wales

Searching For a Lost Medieval City Somewhere in Wales

A Lay-Archaeologist, Pissed-Off Professionals, and Some Farmland Near the Forest of Dean

By Matthew Green | July 18, 2022

The Republican Party Now Backs an Anti-Democratic Insurgency

The Republican Party Now Backs an Anti-Democratic Insurgency

Malcolm Nance on the Trump Insurgents and the Conspiracy Thinking of Their MAGA-Hat-Colored World

By Malcolm Nance | July 18, 2022

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By Jared Del Rosso | July 15, 2022

Why the Graphic Novel Is an Ideal Form to Capture the Timeless Philosophy of Stoicism

By Keen On | July 15, 2022

Lost in Translation: When the United States Met Pablo Picasso

Lost in Translation: When the United States Met Pablo Picasso

Hugh Eakin on John Quinn, the Man Who First Introduced America to Modern Art and New Ideas

By Hugh Eakin | July 14, 2022

Amy B. Reid on Translating the Very Book She Needed to Read

Amy B. Reid on Translating the Very Book She Needed to Read

On Mutt-Lon's The Blunder

By Amy B. Reid | July 14, 2022

What Can Extinct Hominins Teach Us About Being Human?

What Can Extinct Hominins Teach Us About Being Human?

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 14, 2022

When Arthur Conan Doyle showed up at his own memorial service. (Maybe.)

When Arthur Conan Doyle showed up at his own memorial service. (Maybe.)

By Emily Temple | July 13, 2022

When Writing Becomes Traumatic: Reporting on the Jonestown Massacre

When Writing Becomes Traumatic: Reporting on the Jonestown Massacre

Julia Scheeres on the Things She Saw (and the Toll They Took)

By Julia Scheeres | July 13, 2022

How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

Damien Lewis on an American Icon's Transformation from Dancer to Spy

By Damien Lewis | July 13, 2022

The Remarkable Story of the Quaker Teacher Who Defied Hitler

The Remarkable Story of the Quaker Teacher Who Defied Hitler

Deborah Cadbury in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | July 13, 2022

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