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Explore Wallabout, where Whitman lived while finishing <em>Leaves of Grass</em>.

Explore Wallabout, where Whitman lived while finishing Leaves of Grass.

By Corinne Segal | July 27, 2020

Inside the Quest for Documents That Could Resolve a Cold War Mystery

Inside the Quest for Documents That Could Resolve a Cold War Mystery

Nicholson Baker the American Use of Biological Weapons

By Nicholson Baker | July 27, 2020

The Newly Resonant Lessons of an Unlikely Broadway Musical

The Newly Resonant Lessons of an Unlikely Broadway Musical

Anthony Rudel on Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's Adaptation of Cry, the Beloved Country

By Anthony Rudel | July 27, 2020

Tracing Contemporary Food Policies Back to the Enlightenment

Tracing Contemporary Food Policies Back to the Enlightenment

Rebecca Earle on Potatoes, Diets, and Why the State is On Your Plate

By Rebecca Earle | July 27, 2020

On Jane Austen's Politics of Walking

On Jane Austen's Politics of Walking

Rachel Cohen: These Characters Walk to Be Themselves and to Change

By Rachel Cohen | July 24, 2020

The Citizen Scholar Who Led the Hunt for Queen Lili’uokalani’s Lost Diaries

The Citizen Scholar Who Led the Hunt for Queen Lili’uokalani’s Lost Diaries

Julia Flynn Siler on Author and Historian David W. Forbes

By Julia Flynn Siler | July 24, 2020

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Was Jefferson a Hero or Villain?
Both, and Neither.

By Alan Taylor | July 24, 2020

Learning to Decipher My Father's Past in Nazi Germany

By L. Annette Binder | July 24, 2020

"mong kok, october 2019"

By Xiao Yue Shan | July 24, 2020

Arthur C. Clarke's Scientific Romances Eschew Spectacle for Dumbstruck Wonder

Arthur C. Clarke's Scientific Romances Eschew Spectacle for Dumbstruck Wonder

John Clute on Rendezvous with Rama

By John Clute | July 23, 2020

On the 19th-Century Actress Who Transformed Gender Dynamics in American Theater

On the 19th-Century Actress Who Transformed Gender Dynamics in American Theater

Tana Wojczuk on Charlotte Cushman, Loved by Whitman,
Hawthorne, Alcott and More

By Tana Wojczuk | July 23, 2020

The Complicated History of Feminism's Impact on Incarceration

The Complicated History of Feminism's Impact on Incarceration

Aya Gruber on Anti-Prostitution Sentiment and Its Implicit Racism

By Aya Gruber | July 23, 2020

Why Stories Makes Sense of Our Lives (and Relationships)

Why Stories Makes Sense of Our Lives (and Relationships)

Frank Tallis on the Anthropological View of Storytelling

By Frank Tallis | July 22, 2020

To Be the Poet of Troy: <br>An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha by Philip Metres

To Be the Poet of Troy:
An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha by Philip Metres

On Starting the Edward Said Library in the Gaza Strip

By Philip Metres | July 22, 2020

Oliver Stone on Bringing the Spirit of Homer's Epics to the Screen in <em>Platoon</em>

Oliver Stone on Bringing the Spirit of Homer's Epics to the Screen in Platoon

The Film Director Recalls His 1986 Vietnam Classic

By Oliver Stone | July 22, 2020

The Monster That Everyone Saw and No One Cared to Talk About

The Monster That Everyone Saw and No One Cared to Talk About

Colin Dickey on Tensions Between Folklore and Mainstream Science

By Colin Dickey | July 21, 2020

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