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How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

Shanna Greene Benjamin on the Broader Narrative of
Black Women’s Intellectualism

By Shanna Greene Benjamin | April 12, 2021

Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code book.

Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code book.

By Walker Caplan | April 9, 2021

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Stephanie Dray on the Historical Mysteries of the
Chateau de Chavaniac

By Stephanie Dray | April 9, 2021

Noa Tishby on Trying to Uncomplicate Israel

Noa Tishby on Trying to Uncomplicate Israel

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | April 9, 2021

This Is Who We Are: Gish Jen and Peter Ho Davies on the Long History of Anti-Asian Racism in the US

This Is Who We Are: Gish Jen and Peter Ho Davies on the Long History of Anti-Asian Racism in the US

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 8, 2021

To Write a History of Pittsburgh is to Write a History of America

To Write a History of Pittsburgh is to Write a History of America

Ed Simon on the Paris of Appalachia

By Ed Simon | April 8, 2021

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Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way

By Victoria Law | April 8, 2021

A Conversation with Selma van de Perre, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | April 8, 2021

Janice P. Nimura: The Case for Admiring “Unlikable” Women

By Just the Right Book | April 8, 2021

Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

By Walker Caplan | April 7, 2021

Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation

Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation

For As Long As There Have Been Printed Books, There Has Been Marginalia

By Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia | April 7, 2021

Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

Tara Betts on the Need to Imagine New Opportunities
for the Marginalized

By Tara Betts | April 6, 2021

Uncovering the Stories of the Jewish Women Resistance Fighters in Nazi-Occupied Poland

Uncovering the Stories of the Jewish Women Resistance Fighters in Nazi-Occupied Poland

Judy Batalion on Freuen in di Ghettos, the Yiddish Anthology That Introduced Her to Dozens of Female Fighters

By Judy Batalion | April 6, 2021

Phillip Lopate Considers America’s Post-WWII Essay Boom

Phillip Lopate Considers America’s Post-WWII Essay Boom

On the Political, Social, and Literary Forces That Led to a Proliferation of the Genre

By Phillip Lopate | April 5, 2021

5 Audiobooks for Celebrating the Stories of Trailblazing Women

5 Audiobooks for Celebrating the Stories of Trailblazing Women

James Tate Hill Recommends Elizabeth Blackwell,
Cicely Tyson, and More

By James Tate Hill | April 5, 2021

Tobey Pearl on Colonial Violence and America’s First Murder Trial

Tobey Pearl on Colonial Violence and America’s First Murder Trial

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | April 2, 2021

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