What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

Jane Gallop in Conversation with H. Aram Veeser

By H. Aram Veeser and Jane Gallop | December 23, 2020

What Elites Got Wrong About Mary McCarthy's <em>The Group</em>

What Elites Got Wrong About Mary McCarthy's The Group

They Dismissed It As a "Lady-Writer’s Novel"

By Apoorva Tadepalli | December 22, 2020

How We Talk About the Boys Club of NASA's Apollo Program

How We Talk About the Boys Club of NASA's Apollo Program

From the Time to Eat the Dogs Podcast with Michael Robinson

By Time to Eat the Dogs | December 22, 2020

On 1979 and the Unraveling of the Modern Middle East

On 1979 and the Unraveling of the Modern Middle East

Kim Ghattas Talks to Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 21, 2020

Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and<br> Chicano Poetry

Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
Chicano Poetry

politics of identity as irony."">"To be a Chicanao poet is to be dealing with the
politics of identity as irony."

By Lorna Dee Cervantes | December 21, 2020

Rewriting the American Canon with <em>The Book of Firsts</em>

Rewriting the American Canon with The Book of Firsts

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | December 21, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

On Artificial Intelligence, White Supremacy, and the Military-Industrial Complex

By Yarden Katz | December 18, 2020

The Fascinating History of Intersectionality in the Medieval World

By New Books Network | December 18, 2020

Was Stonehenge Just the Inner Part of a Huge Wooden Temple?

By Roland Ennos | December 18, 2020

How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

Alan Mikhail Considers the Historical Ripples of Islamophobia

By Alan Mikhail | December 17, 2020

On Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess's Absurd Mission to Broker Peace

On Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess's Absurd Mission to Broker Peace

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | December 17, 2020

That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in<br> New Mexico

That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in
New Mexico

Ken Layne on Magic and War in Los Alamos

By Ken Layne | December 16, 2020

Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf's Writings About Illness<br> and Disability

Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf's Writings About Illness
and Disability

Gabrielle Bellot Explores the Complexity of Detailing Sickness in the Age of COVID

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 16, 2020

The Restless Ghost Stories <br>of M. R. James

The Restless Ghost Stories
of M. R. James

Adam Scovell on Visiting the Writer's Grave

By Adam Scovell | December 15, 2020

How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

Jan Swafford on the Influence of Leopold Mozart on
His Precocious Son

By Jan Swafford | December 15, 2020

The Inertia of Whiteness in the World of Postwar Publishing

The Inertia of Whiteness in the World of Postwar Publishing

"Big Manhattan book publishers publish hundreds of authors each year, but in their eyes, only a very few really matter."

By Richard Jean So | December 15, 2020

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