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“We Were Alive and Life Was Us.” How Ken Kesey Created LSD Subculture

“We Were Alive and Life Was Us.” How Ken Kesey Created LSD Subculture

Kevin Boyle on the Wild Life and Times of a Great American Iconoclast

By Kevin Boyle | October 27, 2021

On Centering the Oceanic South and Disrupting the Study of the “Age of Revolutions”

On Centering the Oceanic South and Disrupting the Study of the “Age of Revolutions”

From the 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding Winning Title Waves Across the South by Sujit Sivasundaram

By Sujit Sivasundaram | October 27, 2021

In his free time, William Makepeace Thackeray loved sketching witches and ghouls.

In his free time, William Makepeace Thackeray loved sketching witches and ghouls.

By Walker Caplan | October 26, 2021

The secret history of your favorite bad writing cliché:

The secret history of your favorite bad writing cliché: "it was a dark and stormy night."

By Emily Temple | October 26, 2021

Read the letter that began the legendary friendship between Henry James and Edith Wharton.

Read the letter that began the legendary friendship between Henry James and Edith Wharton.

By Vanessa Willoughby | October 26, 2021

Here Are October’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

Here Are October’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

Featuring a History of Pop Music, a Chronicle of Black Filmmaking, a Counterhistory of Feminism, and More

By Book Marks | October 26, 2021

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W. Ralph Eubanks Takes a Journey Through the Literary History of Mississippi

By Keen On | October 26, 2021

Remember when the Grateful Dead did a 12-minute freestyle based on “The Raven”?

By Walker Caplan | October 25, 2021

Richard Powers on How Stories Can Help Us Cultivate Kinship with Other Creatures

By Emergence Magazine | October 25, 2021

Charlotte Cushman: Radical Feminist, Actress, Patron of the Arts

Charlotte Cushman: Radical Feminist, Actress, Patron of the Arts

Tana Wojczuk on the Leader of an Unlikely Group of Expats Called the “Jolly Bachelors”

By Tana Wojczuk | October 25, 2021

A super-rare first folio fragment of Shakespeare’s <em>Henry IV</em> is up for auction.

A super-rare first folio fragment of Shakespeare’s Henry IV is up for auction.

By Walker Caplan | October 22, 2021

Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 21, 2021

How Nostalgia Can Hide Dark Political Realities

How Nostalgia Can Hide Dark Political Realities

Andrew Potter Investigates the Nature of Societal Decline

By Andrew Potter | October 21, 2021

Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

Taran Khan on Life in an Uncertain Afghanistan

By Taran Khan | October 21, 2021

What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Innovation

What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Innovation

Armand D’Angour in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 21, 2021

Who will buy the £80,000 watch from James Joyce’s <em>Ulysses</em>?

Who will buy the £80,000 watch from James Joyce’s Ulysses?

By Walker Caplan | October 20, 2021

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