On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People's Lives

On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People's Lives

The Biographer Who Crafted Stories of Self-Transformation

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On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

Kerri Andrews Considers What It Means to Have a Genius for Place

By Kerri Andrews | October 7, 2020

Lenin Loved Revolutions, <br>But What About the Revolutionaries?

Lenin Loved Revolutions,
But What About the Revolutionaries?

"He lived off his mother and off donations to his little Bolshevik Party."

By Barnes Carr | October 7, 2020

The Secret History of

The Secret History of "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board"

Emily Temple on Samuel Pepys and Parlor Games for Plague Times

By Emily Temple | October 6, 2020

How a Scrap of Papyrus Launched a Reconsideration of Early Christianity

How a Scrap of Papyrus Launched a Reconsideration of Early Christianity

Ariel Sabar on Jesus and His Wife

By Ariel Sabar | October 6, 2020

Reading the Travelogues of Percy Fawcett, Explorer of the Lost City of Z

Reading the Travelogues of Percy Fawcett, Explorer of the Lost City of Z

A.J. Lees on Exploration Fawcett

By A.J. Lees | October 6, 2020

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How Halldór Laxness Brings the Heroic to the Everyday

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Where Are the Unlikeable Female Characters in Young Adult Fiction?

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Ishmael Reed: Mr. Miranda, Hamilton Left Out a Few Things

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Andrew Denning on the Nazi Cult of Mobility

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This Week on Time to Eat the Dogs

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On Abe Lincoln and the Tragic Failure of Reconstruction

On Abe Lincoln and the Tragic Failure of Reconstruction

David S. Reynolds in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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<em>Language Keepers</em>: The Race Against Time to Save the Kawaiisu Language

Language Keepers: The Race Against Time to Save the Kawaiisu Language

A Six-Part Series From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

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What a Video Game Can Teach Us About Getting Through a Pandemic

What a Video Game Can Teach Us About Getting Through a Pandemic

Anna Weltman on Making Real-World Models From World of Warcraft Epidemics

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On Riding Out the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Heart of the Old Holy Roman Empire

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Ethan Lou Goes on a Deep Nostalgia Kick in Bayreuth

By Ethan Lou | October 2, 2020

How Sultan Selim's Ottoman Empire Shaped the Modern World

How Sultan Selim's Ottoman Empire Shaped the Modern World

Alan Mikhail in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 2, 2020

When Human Rights Memorials Actually Fan the Flames of Nationalism

When Human Rights Memorials Actually Fan the Flames of Nationalism

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | October 2, 2020

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