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Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Arika Okrent Wonders Why Negative Descriptors Tend to Outlast Their Positive Counterparts

By Arika Okrent | July 23, 2021

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 22, 2021

How American Textbooks Misrepresent the Collective Struggle for Racial Justice

How American Textbooks Misrepresent the Collective Struggle for Racial Justice

On the Colonialism of Contemporary Education

By Leigh Patel | July 22, 2021

How Vaudeville Told the Story of America... to Americans

How Vaudeville Told the Story of America... to Americans

Geoffrey Hilsabeck on the Dizzying Dream of This Country’s First Entertainment Industry

By Geoffrey Hilsabeck | July 22, 2021

No Billionaires Detected: What It Was Like to Walk on the Moon in the Summer of 1971

No Billionaires Detected: What It Was Like to Walk on the Moon in the Summer of 1971

Looking Back at Apollo Missions 14 and 15, and the Crater that Eluded Mankind

By Earl Swift | July 21, 2021

Inside the Early Days of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Inside the Early Days of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Karen Jaime on Documenting the Queer Lives of the Lower East Side

By Karen Jaime | July 21, 2021

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How Anthony Comstock, Enemy to Women of the Gilded Age, Attempted to Ban Contraception

By Amy Sohn | July 20, 2021

Surfing as Sacrament: Returning to New York’s Waves on September 12, 2001

By Thad Ziolkowski | July 20, 2021

Adrian Wooldridge on the American Revolt Against Meritocracy

By Keen On | July 20, 2021

David Lowery on the Strange, Arduous Journey of Adapting <em>The Green Knight</em> for Film

David Lowery on the Strange, Arduous Journey of Adapting The Green Knight for Film

“This may be a poem that resists adaptation.”

By David Lowery | July 19, 2021

The Corrupt Arrogance of William Barr

The Corrupt Arrogance of William Barr

Elie Honig on the Former Attorney General’s “Feigned Ignorance”

By Elie Honig | July 19, 2021

How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press

How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press

When the US First Encountered the “Aesthetic Apostle”

By Nicholas Frankel | July 19, 2021

A Brief History of Perfume: Visiting an Archive of Ancient Scents

A Brief History of Perfume: Visiting an Archive of Ancient Scents

Sarah Everts on the Human Need to Smell Good

By Sarah Everts | July 19, 2021

How Two Telephone Books Tell a Condensed Story of the Holocaust

How Two Telephone Books Tell a Condensed Story of the Holocaust

Miljenko Jergović on the Visible Erasure of Croatian Jews

By Miljenko Jergović, translated by Mirza Purić | July 19, 2021

How a Small French Newspaper Began the Tour de France

How a Small French Newspaper Began the Tour de France

Adin Dobkin on L'Auto, the War Torn Year of 1919, and the Beginning of the Legendary Bike Ride

By Adin Dobkin | July 16, 2021

For the first time, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries will be available to the public.

For the first time, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries will be available to the public.

By Walker Caplan | July 15, 2021

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