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What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia

What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia

Tobias Becker Explores Popular Culture’s Continued Revival of the Past

By Tobias Becker | December 13, 2023

Hidden No More: Why Women’s Contributions to the Italian Renaissance Matter

Hidden No More: Why Women’s Contributions to the Italian Renaissance Matter

Meredith K. Ray on the Importance of Broadening Our View of the Past

By Meredith K. Ray | December 12, 2023

Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s <em>A Day in the Life of Abed Salama</em>

Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

The Must Read Book of the Current Moment

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus | December 12, 2023

Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion

Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion

Simon Price on the Making and Legacy of One of the Band’s Most Beloved Songs

By Simon Price | December 12, 2023

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Marion Turner on the Dramatically Different Ways We Have Read The Canterbury Tales

By Marion Turner | December 11, 2023

When the Culture Wars Came for <em>Monty Python’s Life of Brian</em>

When the Culture Wars Came for Monty Python’s Life of Brian

“A film so funny they banned it in Norway!”

By Kliph Nesteroff | December 8, 2023

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Royally Sweet: How Hot Beverages Became All the Rage in 18th Century Britain

By Gareth Russell | December 8, 2023

Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

By Walter J. Scheirer | December 7, 2023

More Than Meets the Eye: On the Ancient Origins and Diverse Uses of Eyeliner

By Zahra Hankir | December 5, 2023

“The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

“The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

“There were just so many layers and so many colors. Even if all the colors were dark.”

By Dylan Jones | December 5, 2023

How the Neolithic Age Marked the Beginning of the Modern World

How the Neolithic Age Marked the Beginning of the Modern World

John Charles Chasteen on When Homo Sapiens Became Human, For Better and For Worse

By John Charles Chasteen | December 4, 2023

“Is That a First Edition of <em>The Iliad</em>?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

“Is That a First Edition of The Iliad?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

On Constantine Simonides, a Mysterious Stranger in the Cotswolds...

By Christopher de Hamel | November 30, 2023

How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill on the Fraught Yet Successful Partnership of Two Industry Titans

By Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill | November 30, 2023

Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

On the Odd Case of the Musical Anhedonic

By Michel Faber | November 29, 2023

Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets’ Brawl of ‘68

Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets’ Brawl of ‘68

Nick Ripatrazone Recounts Jim Harrison’s Brief Tenure in the Halls of Academia

By Nick Ripatrazone | November 29, 2023

Why We Need a Women’s History of the Roman Empire

Why We Need a Women’s History of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon Offers Five Myth-busting Facts About Women in Ancient Rome

By Emma Southon | November 28, 2023

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