• History

    Antifascism

    Laughing At Evil: When Charlie Chaplin Brought Hitler to the Big Screen

    By Scott Eyman  November 3, 2023
    Hollywood

    How 1950s Hollywood Tried (and Failed) to Make Literary Adaptations Big

    By Foster Hirsch  November 3, 2023
    World War II

    Putting the Asian Experience of World War II at Center Stage: A Reading List of Essential Books

    By Gary J. Bass  November 2, 2023
    Palestine

    A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation

    By Fady Joudah  November 1, 2023
    Early Russian Literature

    How a 17th Century Priest Invented the Russian Novel

    By Irina Zhorov  November 1, 2023
    Dracula

    Silvia Garcia-Moreno on Dracula’s Depictions and Descendants

    By Silvia Moreno-Garcia  October 31, 2023
    Women in Science

    The Past and Present of Writing Women Out of Scientific History

    By Jan Eliasberg  October 27, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How the Cultural Revolution Played Society Against Itself

    By Tania Branigan  October 27, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    The Transcendental Genius of George Balanchine’s Ballet

    By Jennifer Homans  October 27, 2023
    Music history

    The Beatles Adventures in the Red-Light District: On George Harrison’s First Time

    By Philip Norman  October 26, 2023
    Puerto Rican Literature

    On Puerto Rican Literature and “Abyssal Exclusion”

    By Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones  October 26, 2023
    Fascism

    What Does “Fascist” Actually Mean?

    By Alberto Toscano  October 25, 2023
    Excerpt

    Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing

    By Dan Sinykin  October 24, 2023
    Queens

    How Anne Boleyn Captured Our Collective Imagination

    By John Guy and Julia Fox  October 23, 2023
    Language

    What is Left Unsaid: How Some Words Do—Or Don’t—Make It Into Print

    By Sarah Ogilvie  October 23, 2023
    Craft of Globemaking

    On the Artisanal Craft of Making a Globe

    By Peter Bellerby  October 23, 2023
    FOMO

    How the Stoics Dealt With FOMO

    By Brigid Delaney  October 23, 2023
    In Conversation

    Masha Gessen and Nathan Thrall on The Whole Story of Israel and Palestine

    By Literary Hub  October 19, 2023
    Keen On

    Abby Smith Rumsey on What We Should Remember (And Forget) About History

    By Keen On  October 19, 2023
    Women in Science

    How the Lessons of “Lady Doctors” of the 19th Century Helped Write a Contemporary Novel

    By Ritu Mukerji  October 18, 2023
    Activism

    The Revolution Will Be Televised: How Mass Media Made Mass Protest

    By Vincent Bevins  October 18, 2023
    America

    How the Iron Horse Spelled Doom for the American Buffalo

    By Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns  October 16, 2023
    End Times

    Aleksandar Hemon on Living at the End of Time

    By Aleksander Hemon  October 12, 2023
    Medieval History

    Faith, Power, and Survival: What Ruled Life in Early-Medieval England

    By David Mitchell  October 11, 2023
    Language

    No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

    By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
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