• History

    Literary History

    How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

    By Emily Temple  March 17, 2020
    Old Bookstores

    How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

    By Andrew Belonsky  March 16, 2020
    Social Science

    Sugar and Sex in the American Imagination

    By Monique Truong  March 16, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus’s The Plague

    By Liesl Schillinger  March 13, 2020
    War

    Lessons From the Qur’an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

    By Alireza Doostdar  March 13, 2020
    On Race

    Race and Spectacle in the Circuses of Gilded Age America

    By Jacob Dorman  March 12, 2020
    Iran

    Trump Threatened Iranian Cultural Sites. This Is What They Look Like.

    By Terence Ward  March 12, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Yan Lianke: What Happens After Coronavirus?

    By Yan Lianke  March 11, 2020
    Forgeries

    The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

    By Nathan Rabb  March 11, 2020
    Neuroscience

    How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

    By Will Storr  March 11, 2020
    Big Pharma

    On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement

    By Gerald Posner  March 11, 2020
    Prohibition

    How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon ‘Free Lunch.’

    By Ben Katchor  March 10, 2020
    Literary Tourism

    Why Does This Portuguese City Glorify the Author Who
    Hated It?

    By Carolina Marques de Mesquita  March 9, 2020
    Medicine

    Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

    By David Nott  March 6, 2020
    Politics

    The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

    By Robin D.G. Kelley  March 6, 2020
    Science

    What’s the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

    By David Schneider  March 5, 2020
    Activism

    Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

    By Adam Hochschild  March 5, 2020
    The Hub

    Charles Dickens really, really hated his fanboy Hans Christian Andersen.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  March 4, 2020
    Libraries

    How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

    By Alana Mohamed  March 4, 2020
    Style

    Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

    By Dylan Byron  March 3, 2020
    War

    Tim Bakken on the Self-Deluded Hubris at the Heart of the American Military

    By Tim Bakken  March 2, 2020
    News and Culture

    When Robert Moses Wiped Out New York’s ‘Little Syria’

    By Matt Kapp  February 28, 2020
    On Race

    The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education

    By Mikki Kendall  February 27, 2020
    Journalism

    When America’s Most Famous Monthly Took on Its Most Famous Tycoon

    By Stephanie Gorton  February 27, 2020
    Literary History

    A Glimpse Inside the Best Summer of Emily Dickinson’s Life

    By Martha Ackmann  February 26, 2020
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