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Rebecca Solnit on Black Swans, Slim Chances, and the 2020 Presidential Election

Rebecca Solnit on Black Swans, Slim Chances, and the 2020 Presidential Election

"The tricky thing about hope is to not confuse it with optimism."

By Rebecca Solnit | October 15, 2020

Jason Diamond on Suburban Sprawl, AKA Attack of the Blob

Jason Diamond on Suburban Sprawl, AKA Attack of the Blob

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 15, 2020

Fatima Bhutto: No One Who Has Suffered the Handprint of America Is Surprised by Police Brutality

Fatima Bhutto: No One Who Has Suffered the Handprint of America Is Surprised by Police Brutality

From The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber

By The Quarantine Tapes | October 15, 2020

How Neoliberalism Created the New Age of Monopolies

How Neoliberalism Created the New Age of Monopolies

Barry C. Lynn in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 15, 2020

Hitler's Tiger Tanks: When Symbols of Invasion Become Tourist Attractions

Hitler's Tiger Tanks: When Symbols of Invasion Become Tourist Attractions

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | October 15, 2020

How Does the Great Dolly Parton Write a Song?

How Does the Great Dolly Parton Write a Song?

Lydia R. Hamessley on Memory, Musical Storytelling, and "Coat of Many Colors"

By Lydia R. Hamessley | October 14, 2020

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Voting Isn't Guaranteed—Black Women Know That Better Than Anyone

By Keen On | October 14, 2020

On Jewish Community and Identity in Jacques Derrida's Algeria

By Peter Salmon | October 14, 2020

Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

By Literary Hub | October 14, 2020

Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

Anaïs Duplan on Popular Language, Outside Figures, and the Struggle for Recognition

By Anaïs Duplan | October 14, 2020

How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

H. W. Brands on the Early Life of an American Avenger

By H.W. Brands | October 14, 2020

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon's Descent to War

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon's Descent to War

From Kim Ghattas's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Black Wave

By Kim Ghattas | October 14, 2020

The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

From Richard M. Eaton's Cundill Prize-Nominated
India in the Persianate Age

By Richard M. Eaton | October 14, 2020

How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States' Influence in the Middle East

How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States' Influence in the Middle East

From Rashid Khalidi's Cundill Prize-Nominated
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

By Rashid Khalidi | October 14, 2020

On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

From Roderick Beaton Greece's Cundill-Prize Nominated Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

By Roderick Beaton | October 14, 2020

The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

From Vincent Brown's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Tacky’s Revolt

By Vincent Brown | October 14, 2020

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