How Weimar Berlin Inspired Christopher Isherwood’s <em>Sally Bowles</em>

How Weimar Berlin Inspired Christopher Isherwood’s Sally Bowles

Katherine Bucknell on the Tumultuous World That Made the Novella and Its Protagonist

By Katherine Bucknell | August 26, 2024

What the Timelessness of Modern Malaise Reveals About the Human Condition

What the Timelessness of Modern Malaise Reveals About the Human Condition

Viktor E. Frankl on the Collective Neuroses That Characterize Our Society

By Viktor E. Frankl | August 26, 2024

Rebecca Solnit: JD Vance is Just Another Know Nothing Nativist

Rebecca Solnit: JD Vance is Just Another Know Nothing Nativist

“Vance seems to assume that large numbers of native-born white people don't constitute ethnic enclaves.”

By Rebecca Solnit | August 23, 2024

Echoes of Abuse: The Problematic Legacies of Harmful Male Celebrities

Echoes of Abuse: The Problematic Legacies of Harmful Male Celebrities

Joy Neumeyer on the Lingering Effects of the Soviet Union’s Rejection of Feminism

By Joy Neumeyer | August 23, 2024

On the Dark History and Ongoing Ableist Legacy of the IQ Test

On the Dark History and Ongoing Ableist Legacy of the IQ Test

Pepper Stetler Explores How Research Helps Us Understand the Past to Create a Better Future

By Pepper Stetler | August 23, 2024

The 20th-Century Technological Debate That Foretold Our 21st-Century Fears

The 20th-Century Technological Debate That Foretold Our 21st-Century Fears

Andrew Smith on the Competing Predictions of Edsger Dijkstra and Douglas Engelbart

By Andrew Smith | August 22, 2024

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A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North

By Colin Dickey | August 22, 2024

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Bigoted Bookselling: When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles

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Aliens, or Angels? On the Similarities Between UFO Encounters and Religious Experiences

Aliens, or Angels? On the Similarities Between UFO Encounters and Religious Experiences

Luis Elizondo Digs into Biblical Stories, Government Secrecy, and the Difficulties of Studying UAP

By Luis Elizondo | August 20, 2024

What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

Priscilla Morris on the Burning Books and Besieged City That Inspired Her Novel

By Priscilla Morris | August 20, 2024

How Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins Changed the Face of Publishing

How Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins Changed the Face of Publishing

Gill Paul on Two Trailblazing Women Who Revolutionized the Book World

By Gill Paul | August 13, 2024

Art Imitates Testimony: On the Real-Life Inspiration For <em>Uncle Tom’s Cabin</em>

Art Imitates Testimony: On the Real-Life Inspiration For Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Susanna Ashton Chronicles the Journey Behind Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Abolitionist Classic

By Susanna Ashton | August 12, 2024

An Indian Journalist on the Hit List: Investigating the Shocking Assassination of Gauri Lankesh

An Indian Journalist on the Hit List: Investigating the Shocking Assassination of Gauri Lankesh

Rollo Romig on Bangalore, Spiritually Sanctioned Murder, and the Self-Delusions of India's Police Force

By Rollo Romig | August 9, 2024

“Black Infiltrators.” On the Systematic Abuse of African Refugees in Israel

“Black Infiltrators.” On the Systematic Abuse of African Refugees in Israel

Sylvain Cypel Considers the Emergence of Anti-Blackness as a Powerful Motivator in Israeli Society

By Sylvain Cypel | August 9, 2024

Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs

Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs

Edward Dolnick on Rigorous Yet Humorously Misguided Scientific Inquiry in the 17th and 18th Centuries

By Edward Dolnick | August 8, 2024

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