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Can you match the novelist to their <em> nom de plume? </em>

Can you match the novelist to their nom de plume?

By Brittany Allen | August 11, 2025

The Murky Story of Our First Storytellers: On the Mysterious Evolution of Human Language

The Murky Story of Our First Storytellers: On the Mysterious Evolution of Human Language

Madeleine Beekman on Early Humans, Linguistic Acquisition, and the Glaring Gaps in Our Theories

By Madeleine Beekman | August 11, 2025

Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

Sam Bloch Shines Light on How Sun Relief as an Economic Resource in the Era of Capitalism and Climate Change

By Sam Bloch | August 8, 2025

After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

Dean Spears and Michael Geruso on the New Normal For Global Population Growth and Decline

By Dean Spears and Michael Geruso | August 8, 2025

The Poet Who Watched a Football Game on Nagasaki’s Atomic Killing Field

The Poet Who Watched a Football Game on Nagasaki’s Atomic Killing Field

Greg Mitchell on William W. Watt’s Experience in the Aftermath of Nuclear Devastation

By Greg Mitchell | August 8, 2025

What the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting means for Viewers Like You.

What the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting means for Viewers Like You.

By Brittany Allen | August 7, 2025

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Catastrophe Awaits:
Nagasaki Before the Bomb

By M.G. Sheftall | August 7, 2025

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

By Princess Joy L. Perry | August 7, 2025

On the Particular Joys of Etymological Detective Work

By Martha Barnette | August 6, 2025

The Man in the Vestibule: Chronicle of a Double Homicide in the Rural South

The Man in the Vestibule: Chronicle of a Double Homicide in the Rural South

Joshua Sharpe on the Horror and Aftermath of the 1985 Georgia Church Murders

By Joshua Sharpe | August 6, 2025

One small thing to do today: Pressure mainstream media to cover the Gaza famine.

One small thing to do today: Pressure mainstream media to cover the Gaza famine.

By Brittany Allen | August 5, 2025

Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

Nell Stevens on the Tichborne Claimant Fraud and Creating the Possibility of a Different World Through Fiction

By Nell Stevens | August 4, 2025

How Witi Ihimaera’s <em>The Whale Rider</em> Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

How Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

Shilo Kino on the Novel That Represented and Reconnected New Zealand’s Indigenous People

By Shilo Kino | August 4, 2025

Why you should read Howard Zinn’s <em>Artists in Times of War</em> now.

Why you should read Howard Zinn’s Artists in Times of War now.

By James Folta | July 30, 2025

How Medical Misogyny Impacted the Treatment of Women’s Migraines

How Medical Misogyny Impacted the Treatment of Women’s Migraines

Tom Zeller Jr. Explores the Gendered Dimension of Neuroscience In the 20th Century

By Tom Zeller Jr. | July 30, 2025

White Sugar, Black Bodies: How Slavery Fueled an 18th-Century British Obsession

White Sugar, Black Bodies: How Slavery Fueled an 18th-Century British Obsession

Mathelinda Nabugodi Explores the Violent Shared History of a Popular Consumer Product and Colonial Power in the Caribbean

By Mathelinda Nabugodi | July 29, 2025

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