• History

    Drugs

    Plunging Into the 1970s’ Altered States of Awareness

    By Buzz Poole  August 16, 2019
    Economics

    Where Have All the Pirates Gone?

    By Peter Lehr  August 15, 2019
    WWII

    The French Village That Saved Hundreds Fleeing Nazi Persecution

    By Maggie Paxson  August 14, 2019
    Literary History

    Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

    By Roy Jacobsen  August 14, 2019
    Animals

    Do We Care Enough About Animals to Save Them From Extinction?

    By Jane Rawson  August 13, 2019
    Literary Scams

    We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 13, 2019
    Weather

    A Brief Eerie History of How the Wind Makes Us Crazy

    By Lyall Watson  August 13, 2019
    Encyclopedias

    The Intoxicating Other Worlds of the Encyclopedia

    By David Carlin  August 13, 2019
    Linguistics

    On the Great Old White Guy Vocal Fry Panic of 2013

    By Amanda Montell  August 12, 2019
    Counterculture

    Why Were the 1970s So… Weird?

    By Erik Davis  August 12, 2019
    Sex Poems

    On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

    By Lauren Cocking  August 9, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User’s Manual

    By Caitlin Horrocks  August 9, 2019
    Reading Lists

    5 Artists Who Explore Japanese-American Incarceration and Internment

    By Brandon Shimoda  August 8, 2019
    Superstition

    Rick Moody on the Case of the Cursed Charles Manson Autograph

    By Rick Moody  August 8, 2019
    Feminism

    On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

    By Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner  August 8, 2019
    Natural Resources

    When Plastic Grew on Trees

    By Edward Posnett  August 8, 2019
    Literary History

    The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Never Wrote

    By Anne Margaret Daniel  August 7, 2019
    Libraries

    InterLibrary Loan Will
    Change Your Life

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 7, 2019
    Marriage

    The Painter’s Wife vs. The Poet’s Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

    By Shawna Lemay  August 6, 2019
    Reading Lists

    What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

    By Kate McQuade  August 6, 2019
    Influences

    How the Long Persecution
    of the Rhineland Jews Shaped Karl Marx

    By Shlomo Avineri  August 6, 2019
    News and Culture

    Failed Utopias: Can You Buy an Immaculate World With Dirty Money?

    By Caite Dolan-Leach  August 6, 2019
    The Rights of Women

    What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

    By Julie Phillips  August 5, 2019
    Criticism

    Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of ‘Barbaric’

    By Walter Benjamin  August 2, 2019
    Immigration

    The Life of Afong Moy, the First Chinese Woman in America

    By Nancy E. Davis  August 2, 2019
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