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A Brief Excavation of the Bows, Arrows, and Chariots in King Tut’s Tomb

A Brief Excavation of the Bows, Arrows, and Chariots in King Tut’s Tomb

Toby Wilkinson Examines 18th-Dynasty Egyptian Technology

By Toby Wilkinson | November 15, 2022

On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

Cat Fitzpatrick’s Celebration of “Absurd Embellishments”

By Cat Fitzpatrick | November 15, 2022

Cary Grant as <em>The Acrobat</em>: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn’t Really Exist

Cary Grant as The Acrobat: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn’t Really Exist

Edward J. Delaney in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 14, 2022

Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin through Their Postcards to Each Other

Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin through Their Postcards to Each Other

Chip Livingston on a Unique Correspondence

By Chip Livingston | November 14, 2022

A Brief History of Shipwrecks in Literature

A Brief History of Shipwrecks in Literature

Alan G. Jamieson on Why Lost Ships Are So Compelling to Writers

By Alan G. Jamieson | November 11, 2022

How Human Curiosity Unlocked the Scientific Secrets of the Universe

How Human Curiosity Unlocked the Scientific Secrets of the Universe

Brian Thomas Swimme on the Scientific Shakespeares Who Made Modern Cosmology

By Brian Thomas Swimme | November 11, 2022

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The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army

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Builders and Destroyers: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe

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Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Emily Van Duyne’s Tribute to a “Lover of Unreason and an Exile”

By Emily Van Duyne | November 9, 2022

Alia Trabucco Zerán on Writing About Women Who Kill

Alia Trabucco Zerán on Writing About Women Who Kill

“Their crimes are a privileged window from which to observe how the very meaning of womanhood has changed over time.”

By Alia Trabucco Zerán | November 9, 2022

Our Man in Tokyo: Could Pearl Harbor Have Been Avoided With More Skillful American Diplomacy?

Our Man in Tokyo: Could Pearl Harbor Have Been Avoided With More Skillful American Diplomacy?

Steve Kemper in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 9, 2022

Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s <em>Metamorphoses</em>

Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Stephanie McCarter on Finding New Meaning in a Classic

By Stephanie McCarter | November 8, 2022

How Grief and Revenge Made Geronimo Into a Legendary War Chief

How Grief and Revenge Made Geronimo Into a Legendary War Chief

Before Geronimo Became the Apaches’ Fabled War Commander, He Lost Everything

By H.W. Brands | November 8, 2022

On Atlanta’s Essential Role in the Making of American Hip-Hop

On Atlanta’s Essential Role in the Making of American Hip-Hop

Joe Coscarelli Considers the City’s Alternating History of Oppression and Opportunity

By Joe Coscarelli | November 7, 2022

What It Was Like to Be a Jew in Lincoln’s Civil War Army

What It Was Like to Be a Jew in Lincoln’s Civil War Army

Adam Mendelsohn in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 7, 2022

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