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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

On the Willie Nelson Country-Pop Crossover That Changed Everything

On the Willie Nelson Country-Pop Crossover That Changed Everything

Michaelangelo Matos Goes Deep on One of 1980s Biggest Duets

By Michaelangelo Matos | December 14, 2020

How Newt Gingrich and His Band of Grifters Made Politics Into Entertainment

How Newt Gingrich and His Band of Grifters Made Politics Into Entertainment

Julian E. Zelizer Talks to Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 14, 2020

When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

Melvin I. Urofsky on the Living History of Affirmative Action in America

By Melvin I. Urofsky | December 14, 2020

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On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

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How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today's Republican Party

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Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham on Social Media, Black Futurity,
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Barry Lopez on the Wolf Biologist Who Changed His Life as an Environmentalist

Barry Lopez on the Wolf Biologist Who Changed His Life as an Environmentalist

How Bob Stephenson Incorporated Indigenous Knowledge Systems in His Work

By Barry Lopez | December 11, 2020

What the World's First Medical Records Tell Us About <br>Ancient Life

What the World's First Medical Records Tell Us About
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Robin Lane Fox on the History of Epidemics

By Robin Lane Fox | December 11, 2020

What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

Patrick Wright on the Final Years of a Wandering Writer

By Patrick Wright | December 11, 2020

Civil Rights Activist George M. Houser Worked with the Greats of the 20th Century

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From Anticolonial Movements to Black American Civil Rights to South African Apartheid

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I Wrote a Tragic Novel About the 1918 Flu. 14 Years Later, My Family Got COVID

I Wrote a Tragic Novel About the 1918 Flu. 14 Years Later, My Family Got COVID

Thomas Mullen: When the Fictional Veers Into the Real

By Thomas Mullen | December 10, 2020

Memorializing History's Dark Corners With Absurdity

Memorializing History's Dark Corners With Absurdity

Keith Lowe Visits Lithuania's Grutas Park

By Keith Lowe | December 10, 2020

The Private Lives of Shuttered Stores: On Abandoned Interiors

The Private Lives of Shuttered Stores: On Abandoned Interiors

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