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Chinelo Okparanta on William Styron’s <em>Confessions of Nat Turner</em> and Writing Across Racial Identities

Chinelo Okparanta on William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner and Writing Across Racial Identities

“I did wonder about the implications of writing, albeit fictionally and satirically, from a white liberal-minded man’s perspective.”

By Chinelo Okparanta | September 14, 2022

How Black History Saved Me: Peniel E. Joseph on His Path to Scholar-Activism

How Black History Saved Me: Peniel E. Joseph on His Path to Scholar-Activism

Tracing an Education, from W.E.B. Du Bois to Sonia Sanchez

By Peniel E. Joseph | September 14, 2022

How Getting Beyond Neoliberal Economics Can Enable America to Restore Its Greatness

How Getting Beyond Neoliberal Economics Can Enable America to Restore Its Greatness

Thom Hartmann in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 14, 2022

Sarah Kendzior on Trumpland’s Criminal Distortions of American Reality

Sarah Kendzior on Trumpland’s Criminal Distortions of American Reality

“Fighting corruption is not a matter of changing hearts and minds but of accumulating leverage.”

By Sarah Kendzior | September 13, 2022

Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

Randall Munroe Provides a Serious Answer To a Very Hypothetical Literary Question

By Randall Munroe | September 13, 2022

Why World War II Remains So Seductive to Novelists For Writing About Good and Evil

Why World War II Remains So Seductive to Novelists For Writing About Good and Evil

Kristin Beck in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 13, 2022

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By Luke Mogelson | September 12, 2022

Heroes or Traitors? Writing the Story of the Saint Patrick’s Battalion in the Mexican-American War

By Reyna Grande | September 12, 2022

David G. Haskell on the Beginning of Sound on Earth

By Emergence Magazine | September 12, 2022

A Profound Sense of Duty: What Josephine Baker Had in Common With Queen Elizabeth II

A Profound Sense of Duty: What Josephine Baker Had in Common With Queen Elizabeth II

Damien Lewis in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 12, 2022

Hemlines and Court Lines: On the Evolution of Women’s Tennis Clothes

Hemlines and Court Lines: On the Evolution of Women’s Tennis Clothes

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell on Suzanne Lenglen—Tennis Pro and Fashion Icon

By Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell | September 9, 2022

Joma West Talks About Reputation, Hierarchy and Touch, as Told Through Her Dystopian Novel <em>Face</em>

Joma West Talks About Reputation, Hierarchy and Touch, as Told Through Her Dystopian Novel Face

In Conversation with Brenda Noiseux and Rob Wolf on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | September 9, 2022

How Christianity Influenced the Development of Capitalism in Medieval Europe

How Christianity Influenced the Development of Capitalism in Medieval Europe

Jacob Soll on Piety and Profits in the Middle Ages

By Jacob Soll | September 9, 2022

Bad Times Ahead: Even the Futurists Have Given Up on the Future

Bad Times Ahead: Even the Futurists Have Given Up on the Future

Andrew Keen on the End of Optimism

By Andrew Keen | September 9, 2022

Draft Riots, Tammany Hall, and a Fire at Barnum’s Museum: The Birth of the NYC Fire Department

Draft Riots, Tammany Hall, and a Fire at Barnum’s Museum: The Birth of the NYC Fire Department

Brian McDonald on the Transition from a Patchwork of Volunteer Departments to a Modern Force

By Brian McDonald | September 9, 2022

On Martha Cooper’s Exhilarating Photos of 1980s NYC Graffiti

On Martha Cooper’s Exhilarating Photos of 1980s NYC Graffiti

“It’s a high you can’t find anywhere else.”

By Miss Rosen | September 8, 2022

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