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Now you can buy the glorious mansion where Mark Twain died.
By
Walker Caplan
| July 9, 2021
What Makes Jewish Literature “Jewish”?
Ilan Stavans on Belonging, Bookishness, and Memory
By
Ilan Stavans
| July 9, 2021
David Potter on What Lenin and Luther Can Teach Us About Our Age of Disruption
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the
Keen On
Podcast
By
Keen On
| July 9, 2021
A nun just unearthed a previously unknown Dante manuscript.
By
Walker Caplan
| July 8, 2021
When Franklin Pierce Saved Nathaniel Hawthorne from Financial Ruin
Gary Ginsberg on the Longtime Friendship Between the Novelist and the Future President
By
Gary Ginsberg
| July 8, 2021
“A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!” On the Rise and Fall of Radium in the Beauty Industry
Lucy Jane Santos on the Most Dangerous Skincare Ingredient of the Early 20th Century
By
Lucy Jane Santos
| July 8, 2021
Best Reviewed
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A new Marcel Proust manuscript has been discovered—and you can read part of it right now.
By
Walker Caplan
| July 7, 2021
We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should
By
Julia Baird
| July 7, 2021
In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History
By
Tim Parks
| July 7, 2021
On the Dancing Craze That
Swept Post-WWI Paris
Dominique Kalifa on the Very French “Appetite for Living”
By
Dominique Kalifa
| July 6, 2021
On E.M. Forster’s
Maurice
and the Urgency of Expanding Queer Genealogies
William di Canzio on the Personal and Literary Inspirations
Behind His Novel
By
William di Canzio
| July 6, 2021
A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi Discuss the Memoir of an Extraordinary Life
By
Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi
| July 6, 2021
Theodore R. Johnson on Racism’s Existential Threat to the Promise of America
What Racial Hierarchy and Segregation Do to the Soul of a Nation
By
Theodore R. Johnson
| July 2, 2021
When Disability Rights Activists Staged a 25-Day Sit-in at a Government Building (Alongside the Black Panthers)
Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner Recount a History-Making Protest
By
Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner
| July 2, 2021
What Makes America a Nation? (And If It Isn’t, What Could?)
George Packer on This Uncertain Union of Strangers
By
George Packer
| July 2, 2021
The Century of
Captain America
: A Brief History of a Beloved Comic
Roy Thomas on the Rise of an Iconic Illustrated Figure
By
Roy Thomas
| July 2, 2021
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The Most Unhinged Women in Fiction (That Marisa Walz Would Still Invite to Brunch)
February 4, 2026
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Marisa Walz
Sherlock Holmes and Me—Together Again
February 4, 2026
by
Jeffrey Siger
Isabelle Schuler on the Horrors and Contrasts of the 17th Century
February 4, 2026
by
Isabelle Schuler
The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
"Poignant Tender The final line of em The Rest of Our Lives em is by…"