• History

    In Conversation

    On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
    Post-Truth Age

    By Joanna Kavenna  October 25, 2019
    Hip Hop

    On Debbie D, One of Hip-Hop’s Legendary Pioneers

    By Kathy Iandoli  October 25, 2019
    Inspiration

    For So Many Cultures, the Key to Understanding Death is a Festival of Light

    By Sasha Sagan  October 24, 2019
    European History

    How Napoleon’s Italian Exile Set the Stage for His Return to Power

    By Mark Braude  October 24, 2019
    Poetry

    The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

    By Carl Phillips  October 23, 2019
    European Politics

    Visiting Vojna: on the Horrors of the Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia

    By Diane Simmons  October 23, 2019
    European Culture

    Exploring the Forgotten Writerly Playground of the European Aristocracy

    By Orlando Figes  October 23, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Trial of Harry Houdini

    By Joe Posnanski  October 22, 2019
    Music

    Dead Kennedys in the West:
    The Politicized Punks of 1970s San Francisco

    By Lincoln A. Mitchell  October 22, 2019
    Criticism

    Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

    By Martha Cooley  October 21, 2019
    Cundill History Prize

    The Two Mughal Princes Who Stood in the Way of the British East India Company

    By William Dalrymple  October 21, 2019
    Literary History

    On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

    By Rebecca Onion  October 21, 2019
    Immigration

    The Diplomatic Gambit That Opened Cuba Up to the World

    By Victor Andres Triay  October 21, 2019
    Community

    From Burning Man to Industrial Rome, Gift-Giving as Ritualized, Collective Offering

    By Lewis Hyde  October 21, 2019
    True Crime

    Murder in Paradise: The Tale of the Baroness and the Bohemians

    By Mars van Grunsven  October 18, 2019
    Literary History

    Orwell’s Notes on 1984: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

    By D.J. Taylor  October 18, 2019
    Libraries

    The Role of Librarians in a Historical Age of Obsession

    By Mark Purcell  October 18, 2019
    Dictators

    Rebecca Solnit: Life Under the First Thousand Days of Donald Trump

    By Rebecca Solnit  October 17, 2019
    Vietnam

    Tim O’Brien: Where is Our Allegiance to the “Toneless Dead”?

    By Tim O'Brien  October 17, 2019
    Food

    How Do We Preserve the Vanishing Foods of the Earth?

    By Lenore Newman  October 15, 2019
    Norwegian Literature

    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Norwegian Literature (Almost)

    By John Freeman  October 15, 2019
    Biography

    The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

    By Iris Origo  October 15, 2019
    News and Culture

    Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

    By Maggie Neil  October 11, 2019
    Ireland

    The Irish Clan That Was “Virtually Deleted from History”

    By Tim Robinson  October 11, 2019
    Dictators

    In the Age of Political Thugs

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  October 11, 2019
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