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On Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess's Absurd Mission to Broker Peace

On Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess's Absurd Mission to Broker Peace

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | December 17, 2020

That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in<br> New Mexico

That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in
New Mexico

Ken Layne on Magic and War in Los Alamos

By Ken Layne | December 16, 2020

Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf's Writings About Illness<br> and Disability

Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf's Writings About Illness
and Disability

Gabrielle Bellot Explores the Complexity of Detailing Sickness in the Age of COVID

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 16, 2020

The Restless Ghost Stories <br>of M. R. James

The Restless Ghost Stories
of M. R. James

Adam Scovell on Visiting the Writer's Grave

By Adam Scovell | December 15, 2020

How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

Jan Swafford on the Influence of Leopold Mozart on
His Precocious Son

By Jan Swafford | December 15, 2020

The Inertia of Whiteness in the World of Postwar Publishing

The Inertia of Whiteness in the World of Postwar Publishing

"Big Manhattan book publishers publish hundreds of authors each year, but in their eyes, only a very few really matter."

By Richard Jean So | December 15, 2020

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On the Willie Nelson Country-Pop Crossover That Changed Everything

By Michaelangelo Matos | December 14, 2020

How Newt Gingrich and His Band of Grifters Made Politics Into Entertainment

By Keen On | December 14, 2020

When Women Demanded Access to Blue-Collar Jobs

By Melvin I. Urofsky | December 14, 2020

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

Damiano Abeni: Transforming Texts as a Performing Art

By Damiano Abeni | December 14, 2020

How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today's Republican Party

How the Dog-Whistle Politics of the Reagan Era Gave Us Today's Republican Party

Rick Perlstein Talks to Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 11, 2020

Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham on Social Media, Black Futurity, <br>and the Archive

Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham on Social Media, Black Futurity,
and the Archive

Black Futures started as all great contemporary love stories do—on an app!"">"Black Futures started as all great contemporary love stories do—on an app!"

By Rasheeda Saka | December 11, 2020

Barry Lopez on the Wolf Biologist Who Changed His Life as an Environmentalist

Barry Lopez on the Wolf Biologist Who Changed His Life as an Environmentalist

How Bob Stephenson Incorporated Indigenous Knowledge Systems in His Work

By Barry Lopez | December 11, 2020

What the World's First Medical Records Tell Us About <br>Ancient Life

What the World's First Medical Records Tell Us About
Ancient Life

Robin Lane Fox on the History of Epidemics

By Robin Lane Fox | December 11, 2020

What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

Patrick Wright on the Final Years of a Wandering Writer

By Patrick Wright | December 11, 2020

Civil Rights Activist George M. Houser Worked with the Greats of the 20th Century

Civil Rights Activist George M. Houser Worked with the Greats of the 20th Century

From Anticolonial Movements to Black American Civil Rights to South African Apartheid

By Sheila D. Collins | December 11, 2020

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