Literary Hub » History

Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

Cullen Murphy Shares the Writer’s Interactions with Josephine Baker, Gore Vidal, Princess Margaret and More

By Cullen Murphy | November 21, 2022

How Scientists’ Misguided Utopian Theories of Biological Selection Defined the 20th Century

How Scientists’ Misguided Utopian Theories of Biological Selection Defined the 20th Century

Adam Rutherford on the Dark History and Troubling Legacy of Eugenics

By Adam Rutherford | November 21, 2022

How Jane Austen Almost Walked Away From Writing

How Jane Austen Almost Walked Away From Writing

Anna Beer Ponders the Possible Loss of a Literary Icon

By Anna Beer | November 18, 2022

What Exactly Is Section 230 and Why Was It So Essential in the Creation of the Internet?

What Exactly Is Section 230 and Why Was It So Essential in the Creation of the Internet?

Jeff Kosseff in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 18, 2022

Disability Pride: Representation is Only the First Step

Disability Pride: Representation is Only the First Step

Ben Mattlin on Disability Rights Activists’ Ongoing Fight for Dignity

By Ben Mattlin | November 18, 2022

How the Injustices of Racism and Inequality Continue to Reverberate Through the Generations

How the Injustices of Racism and Inequality Continue to Reverberate Through the Generations

Nicholas Dawidoff in Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | November 18, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

A Plethora of Penises: How People Wrote About Sex in the Middle Ages

By Katherine Harvey | November 17, 2022

Moral Panics Never Go Out of Style: On the Corrosive Effects of the Culture Wars

By Arlene Stein | November 16, 2022

What If... Listicles Are Actually an Ancient Form of Writing and Narrative?

By James Vincent | November 16, 2022

The Problem with Calling Nature “Wild”

The Problem with Calling Nature “Wild”

“When you seek wildness, where, precisely, do you go?”

By Phillip Vannini and April Vannini | November 16, 2022

A Brief History of the Attempts to Unionize Walmart

A Brief History of the Attempts to Unionize Walmart

Rick Wartzman on the Behemoth’s Antipathy Toward Organized Labor

By Rick Wartzman | November 16, 2022

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

“If you come to live there, come to know it, you will live in other times.”

By Brigitta Olubas | November 15, 2022

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

« First ‹ Previous 91 92 93 949596 97 98 99 Next ›Last »

Page 95 of 286