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What Can the Artist Do in Dark Times?

What Can the Artist Do in Dark Times?

Paul Scraton on the Life and Legacy of Käthe Kollwitz

By Paul Scraton | February 14, 2020

How Obama’s Reading Shaped His Writing

How Obama’s Reading Shaped His Writing

"Obama-the-writer came before Obama-the-candidate."

By Craig Fehrman | February 13, 2020

Corruption, Inc.: Andrea Bernstein on the Trumps, the Kushners, and the Age of the Oligarchs

Corruption, Inc.: Andrea Bernstein on the Trumps, the Kushners, and the Age of the Oligarchs

The Author of American Oligarchs in Conversation with Dylan Foley

By Dylan Foley | February 13, 2020

Escaping Into Books About the Middle Ages is My Self-Therapy

Escaping Into Books About the Middle Ages is My Self-Therapy

Amber Sparks on How the Black Death Can Give
You a Little Perspective

By Amber Sparks | February 12, 2020

Memory vs. History: On the Neverending Struggle to See Clearly Into the Past

Memory vs. History: On the Neverending Struggle to See Clearly Into the Past

Sarisha Kurup Tries to Map the Personal Over the Public

By Sarisha Kurup | February 12, 2020

Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition

Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition

Clare Beams on Women's Bodies and the Power of Names

By Clare Beams | February 11, 2020

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A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

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The Last Days at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Cold
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We Didn't Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK's Inauguration

By John Burnside | February 10, 2020

On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

Gaia Vince Considers the Adaptive Urgency of Storytelling

By Gaia Vince | February 10, 2020

Days Five and Six at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: Secret Meetings and the Founding of the UN

Days Five and Six at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: Secret Meetings and the Founding of the UN

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later

By Diana Preston | February 10, 2020

Finding Liberation in the Early Years of the Women's Royal Naval Service

Finding Liberation in the Early Years of the Women's Royal Naval Service

"I am crazy on the sea."

By Simon Parkin | February 7, 2020

The Investigation Truman Capote Started, But Never Finished, on Russian Socialites

The Investigation Truman Capote Started, But Never Finished, on Russian Socialites

Sophia Leonard on a Draft that Never Saw the Light of Day

By Sophia Leonard | February 7, 2020

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

Sam Wasson on the Creation of a City's Mythology

By Sam Wasson | February 7, 2020

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

On Jenn Shapland and "Hunting Lesbians"

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How Nazism's Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

How Nazism's Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

On the Growing Tide of Racial Animosity in 1930s Los Angeles

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