• History

    The Hub

    The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died.

     
    By Brittany Allen  May 29, 2025
    Authoritarianism

    How the Brothers Grimm Became Martyrs to Academic Freedom

    By Maria Hummel  May 28, 2025
    Policing

    Saying No to Cop City: Reviving a Radical Black Liberation Movement in Atlanta and Beyond

    By Curtis Duncan  May 21, 2025
    Culinary History

    Why Are We So Obsessed With Avocados?

    By Sarah Allaback and Monique F. Parsons  May 21, 2025
    Cults

    A Question of Free Will: Inside the Final Days of Katherine Mansfield

    By Allison Buccola  May 20, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Include as Little History as You Can: The Danger of Explaining Too Much in Historical Fiction

    By Jesse Browner  May 20, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Philosophy

    What Spinoza’s Metaphysics Can Reveal to Us About the Creative Process

    By Madeleine Thien  May 20, 2025
    literary criticism

    L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

    By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
    History of Science

    When Bees Discover the Scientists Who Dedicated Their Lives to Studying Them

    By Peter Kuper  May 16, 2025
    Violence

    Nothing is Promised: What Our Current Fragile Peace Reveals About the Forces of History

    Askold Melnyczuk Explores the Moral Questions Posed to Us In the Face of War and Violence

    By Askold Melnyczuk  May 29, 2025
    Supreme Court

    Does the Supreme Court Really Just Run on Vibes Now?

    By Leah Litman  May 15, 2025
    Prehistory

    How Language Evolved Out of Cultural Exchange Between Europe and the Near East

    By Laura Spinney  May 15, 2025
    TV Writing

    Enjoying the Sweet Stink of The Gilded Age in the Age of Billionaires

    By Danielle Teller  May 15, 2025
    The Hub

    What to read next if you loved Sinners.

    A vampire's reading list.

    By Brittany Allen  May 14, 2025
    Sexuality

    Why the World’s First Celebrity Sex Therapist Had to Flee the Nazis

    By Daniel Brook  May 14, 2025
    Apocalypses

    And If This Is(n’t) the End of the World? Why We Dread—and Desire—Apocalypse

    By Alex Foster  May 14, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

    By Literary Hub  May 13, 2025
    Nature

    On Science, Ancient Philosophy, and Re-Enchanting Nature

    M.D. Usher Takes Stock of Anthropocentric Ideas in the Anthropocene

    By M.D. Usher  May 13, 2025
    Transphobia

    How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans

    By Tracy Slater  May 12, 2025
    Ukraine

    Centuries of Sediment: Unearthing a History of Violence, Conquest, and Resistance in Ukraine

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  May 12, 2025
    What If?

    Mushroom Cloud Over Manhattan: What Would Happen in the First Few Hours of Nuclear War

    By Mark Lynas  May 12, 2025
    Antifascism

    What If It Is Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

    David Renton Rereads Lewis and Roth in a New Era of Authoritarianism

    By David Renton  May 12, 2025
    Catholicism

    You Don’t Have to Believe in God to Find Hope in Pope Leo

    By Aron Solomon  May 9, 2025
    Motherhood

    What Motherhood in Kenya Reveals About the Nature of Family

    By Abigail Leonard  May 9, 2025
    Ancient History

    The Woman With the Axe: On Fu Hao, Ancient China’s Warrior Queen

    By Rachel McCarthy James  May 15, 2025
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