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In Search of the Mona Lisa of Rum: Finding the World’s Oldest (and Dustiest) Vintage

In Search of the Mona Lisa of Rum: Finding the World’s Oldest (and Dustiest) Vintage

Aaron Goldfarb on Harewood Rum, Prohibition, and Stephen Remsberg’s Hunt for a Legendary Liquor

By Aaron Goldfarb | March 22, 2024

Jamie Figueroa on the Fraught Process of (Re)Claiming the Spanish Language

Jamie Figueroa on the Fraught Process of (Re)Claiming the Spanish Language

“With this tongue, with this mouth, I speak, I hold, I force out, I take in.”

By Jamie Figueroa | March 22, 2024

Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing

Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing

Valorie Castellanos Clark on the Covert Quests of the First Woman to Make a Living Writing in English

By Valorie Castellanos Clark | March 18, 2024

How Lew Alcindor Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

How Lew Alcindor Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Scott Howard-Cooper on the Early Years of a Future Basketball Icon

By Scott Howard-Cooper | March 18, 2024

On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

Melissa Pritchard Explores the Parallel Lives of the Russian Literary Giant and the Founder of Modern Nursing

By Melissa Pritchard | March 15, 2024

Our Founding Mothers: On the Women Who Changed the Modern World

Our Founding Mothers: On the Women Who Changed the Modern World

Stephanie Dray Recommends Kate Quinn, Stephanie Thornton, Vanessa Riley, and More

By Stephanie Dray | March 15, 2024

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Imagining a World Where Anti-Colonial Fantasy Lit Is the Norm, Not the Exception

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Melissa Blair on Writing the Indigenous-Centered Book She Wanted as a Schoolchild

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How Richard Wright’s <em>Native Son</em> Eventually Made It to the Big Screen

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Charlene Regester on the Fraught Relationship Between Early Black Writers and the American Film Industry

By Charlene Regester | February 29, 2024

Phillipa Gregory on How the Norman Invasion Brought Patriarchy to England

Phillipa Gregory on How the Norman Invasion Brought Patriarchy to England

“There are more penises than English women in the Bayeux Tapestry.”

By Philippa Gregory | February 28, 2024

Uncovering the Incredible Story of a Romance Between Two Prisoners in Auschwitz

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