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Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

How Researching the Forbidden Shaped The Themes of My Novel

By Aimee Parkison | October 29, 2021

Prince Charles has weighed in on the Brontë manuscripts controversy.

Prince Charles has weighed in on the Brontë manuscripts controversy.

By Walker Caplan | October 28, 2021

Read Sylvia Plath’s first published poem, which she wrote at age 8.

Read Sylvia Plath’s first published poem, which she wrote at age 8.

By Walker Caplan | October 28, 2021

Jesse Eisenberg, Jumaane Williams, and more will perform <em>Oedipus Trilogy</em> online.

Jesse Eisenberg, Jumaane Williams, and more will perform Oedipus Trilogy online.

By Walker Caplan | October 28, 2021

How the Potter Josiah Wedgwood Created an Iconic Abolitionist Medallion

How the Potter Josiah Wedgwood Created an Iconic Abolitionist Medallion

Tristram Hunt on the Union of Moral Passion and Commercial Acumen

By Tristram Hunt | October 28, 2021

John Concagh on the Role of African, Caribbean, and Black British Forces in WWII

John Concagh on the Role of African, Caribbean, and Black British Forces in WWII

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | October 28, 2021

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“We Were Alive and Life Was Us.” How Ken Kesey Created LSD Subculture

By Kevin Boyle | October 27, 2021

On Centering the Oceanic South and Disrupting the Study of the “Age of Revolutions”

By Sujit Sivasundaram | October 27, 2021

In his free time, William Makepeace Thackeray loved sketching witches and ghouls.

By Walker Caplan | October 26, 2021

The secret history of your favorite bad writing cliché:

The secret history of your favorite bad writing cliché: "it was a dark and stormy night."

By Emily Temple | October 26, 2021

Read the letter that began the legendary friendship between Henry James and Edith Wharton.

Read the letter that began the legendary friendship between Henry James and Edith Wharton.

By Vanessa Willoughby | October 26, 2021

Here Are October’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

Here Are October’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

Featuring a History of Pop Music, a Chronicle of Black Filmmaking, a Counterhistory of Feminism, and More

By Book Marks | October 26, 2021

W. Ralph Eubanks Takes a Journey Through the Literary History of Mississippi

W. Ralph Eubanks Takes a Journey Through the Literary History of Mississippi

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 26, 2021

Remember when the Grateful Dead did a 12-minute freestyle based on “The Raven”?

Remember when the Grateful Dead did a 12-minute freestyle based on “The Raven”?

By Walker Caplan | October 25, 2021

Richard Powers on How Stories Can Help Us Cultivate Kinship with Other Creatures

Richard Powers on How Stories Can Help Us Cultivate Kinship with Other Creatures

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | October 25, 2021

Charlotte Cushman: Radical Feminist, Actress, Patron of the Arts

Charlotte Cushman: Radical Feminist, Actress, Patron of the Arts

Tana Wojczuk on the Leader of an Unlikely Group of Expats Called the “Jolly Bachelors”

By Tana Wojczuk | October 25, 2021

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