• History

    Historical Fiction

    Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

    By Stephanie Dray  April 9, 2021
    Keen On

    Noa Tishby on Trying to Uncomplicate Israel

    By Keen On  April 9, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    This Is Who We Are: Gish Jen and Peter Ho Davies on the Long History of Anti-Asian Racism in the US

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 8, 2021
    Gentrification

    To Write a History of Pittsburgh is to Write a History of America

    By Ed Simon  April 8, 2021
    Incarceration

    Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way

    By Victoria Law  April 8, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    A Conversation with Selma van de Perre, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   April 8, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Janice P. Nimura: The Case for Admiring “Unlikable” Women

    By Just the Right Book   April 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

    By Walker Caplan  April 7, 2021
    Marginalia

    Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation

    By Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia  April 7, 2021
    Black Community

    Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

    By Tara Betts  April 6, 2021
    WWII

    Uncovering the Stories of the Jewish Women Resistance Fighters in Nazi-Occupied Poland

    By Judy Batalion  April 6, 2021
    Essays

    Phillip Lopate Considers America’s Post-WWII Essay Boom

    By Phillip Lopate  April 5, 2021
    Audiobooks

    5 Audiobooks for Celebrating the Stories of Trailblazing Women

    By James Tate Hill  April 5, 2021
    Keen On

    Tobey Pearl on Colonial Violence and America’s First Murder Trial

    By Keen On  April 2, 2021
    Book Dreams

    How to Write a Woman Back Into History

    By Book Dreams  April 2, 2021
    The Hub

    In the market for an illuminated manuscript? Got £8 million?

    By Walker Caplan  April 1, 2021
    Book Origins

    Why I Decided to Write Fiction and Publish a Debut Novel
    in My 80s

    By Orville Schell  April 1, 2021
    Keen On

    How Settlers Convinced Themselves They Were the First Owners of America

    By Keen On  April 1, 2021
    The Hub

    Remember when a Brontë Society member got into a public feud with a British supermodel?

    By Vanessa Willoughby  March 31, 2021
    The Hub

    Your Wednesday ASMR: John Ciardi reading his poem “Happiness.”

    By Walker Caplan  March 31, 2021
    Literary Icons

    Ten Savage Insults From Literary Icons

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2021
    Black History

    Liberty or Death: On the Prophetic Visions and Unflinching Will of
    Harriet Tubman

    By Dorothy Wickenden  March 31, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Nella Larsen’s 1922 application to the NYPL’s library school.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  March 30, 2021
    Genocide

    The Virtue of Lying? Unmasking the Truth About the Rwandan Genocide

    By Michela Wrong  March 30, 2021
    Mythology

    Deep in an Icelandic Archive, the Earliest Roots of Nordic Mythology

    By Andri Snær Magnason  March 30, 2021
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