• History

    Politics

    In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

    By Peter Hessler  July 1, 2019
    Political Literature

    We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell’s 1984

    By Dorian Lynskey  June 27, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
    Her Father

    By Jacquelyn Ardam  June 26, 2019
    Technology

    The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

    By Fraser MacDonald  June 26, 2019
    Literary History

    The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

    By Jack Parlett  June 25, 2019
    Overlooked Women

    On Being a Woman Who Loves Math

    By Catherine Chung  June 25, 2019
    Religion

    Massoud Hayoun on What It Means to Identify as Both Jewish and Arab

    By Massoud Hayoun  June 25, 2019
    Dinosaurs

    On America’s Wild West of Dinosaur Fossil Hunting

    By Lukas Rieppel  June 24, 2019
    Literary History

    What Was Hemingway Doing in Cuba During World War II?

    By Andrew Feldman  June 24, 2019
    Existentialism

    The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont’s Fiction

    By André Naffis-Sahely  June 21, 2019
    Literary History

    Previewing the First Ever LGBTQ+ Rare Books Auction

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  June 20, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    “The Stonewall Revolution is Still Happening”

    By Corinne Segal  June 19, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    So, Gutenberg Didn’t Actually Invent Printing As We Know It

    By M. Sophia Newman  June 19, 2019
    Politics

    Why Does a Language Die?

    By Don Kulick  June 18, 2019
    On The Self

    On the Intoxicating Power of Forgetting Where You Came From

    By Lewis Hyde  June 18, 2019
    American History

    Discovering America’s Heavenly Kingdom of Oil

    By Darren Dochuk  June 17, 2019
    War

    On the Syrian Border, 2015, After the Story’s “Gone Elsewhere”

    By Elliot Ackerman  June 13, 2019
    Art History

    In Pablo Picasso’s Studio During the Nazi Occupation of Paris

    By Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake  June 13, 2019
    Summer

    The Swimming Pool: Fascist Blue Rectangle or Immersive Democratic Space?

    By Ellena Savage  June 12, 2019
    Police Power

    The Traffic Stop: One of the Great Abuses of Police Power in Contemporary Life

    By Dan Albert  June 12, 2019
    The Internet

    On the Rise of the Feminist Internet

    By Linda Hirshman  June 11, 2019
    Celebrity

    On the 18th-Century Origins of Celebrity Worship

    By Sharon Marcus  June 10, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The American Myths of Westward Expansion That Just Won’t Die

    By Lauren Markham  June 10, 2019
    Disappearing Archives

    Disappearing Archives: Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation

    By Harmony Holiday  June 10, 2019
    American History

    5 Undersung Moments in History You Probably Didn’t Learn About in Class

    By Christopher Klein  June 7, 2019
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