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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
This Week from the
Book Dreams
Podcast
By
Book Dreams
| July 22, 2021
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
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
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
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
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
Elie Honig on the Former Attorney General’s “Feigned Ignorance”
By
Elie Honig
| July 19, 2021
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
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
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
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.
By
Walker Caplan
| July 15, 2021
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