• History

    The Cold War

    Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’

    By Diana Preston  February 4, 2020
    Criticism

    Googling Literary Lesbians:
    On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

    By Sarah Heying  February 4, 2020
    Jane Austen's Legacy

    Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

    By Janine Barchas  February 4, 2020
    Politics

    Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

    By Clement Knox  February 4, 2020
    Conmen

    The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

    By Adam Sisman  February 3, 2020
    News and Culture

    What the Great Russian Writers Didn’t Get About the Criminal Mind

    By Varlam Shalamov  February 3, 2020
    The Nuclear Age

    How We Learned to Start Fearing the Bomb, Again

    By Fred M. Kaplan  January 31, 2020
    What to Read

    14 Books You Should Read
    in February

    By Literary Hub  January 31, 2020
    Literary Community

    How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

    By Mark Gustafson  January 31, 2020
    Income Inequality

    It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

    By Samuel Freedman  January 30, 2020
    WWII

    The Professor Who Smuggled Intellectuals Out of
    Nazi-Occupied France

    By Justus Rosenberg  January 30, 2020
    Literary History

    Jack London’s Call to Service and Humanism

    By Jack London  January 30, 2020
    Self-Help?

    When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

    By Beth Blum  January 29, 2020
    WWII

    The Italian Women Who Resisted the Nazis with Stones and Willpower

    By Caroline Moorehead  January 29, 2020
    Civil Rights

    The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks’ Life in Detroit

    By Susan Reyburn  January 28, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

    By Jonathan Reiber  January 27, 2020
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

    By John M. Bowers  January 27, 2020
    WWII

    Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

    By Patrick Modiano  January 27, 2020
    Income Inequality

    Americans Are Right To Think the Economy Is Rigged

    By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn  January 24, 2020
    Media

    ‘Is the Newspaper Office the Place
    for a Girl?’

    By Julie Des Jardins  January 24, 2020
    Math

    When a Man Took a Joke in a Pepsi Ad Seriously,
    Chaos Ensued

    By Matt Parker  January 23, 2020
    The History of Reading

    Rediscovering the Lost Power
    of Reading Aloud

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon  January 22, 2020
    Peace

    Striving for a Life of Normality in the Occupied West Bank

    By Ilana Hammerman  January 22, 2020
    Poetry

    Wordsworth: Caught in the Act of Making Poetry!

    By Adam Nicolson  January 21, 2020
    Minimalism

    Kyle Chayka on the Godfather of Minimalism and His Case for Imperfection

    By Kyle Chayka  January 21, 2020
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