On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

From Roderick Beaton Greece's Cundill-Prize Nominated Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

By Roderick Beaton | October 14, 2020

The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

From Vincent Brown's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Tacky’s Revolt

By Vincent Brown | October 14, 2020

The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

From Paul Lay's Cundill-Prize Nominated Providence Lost

By Paul Lay | October 14, 2020

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

From Claudio Saunt's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Unworthy Republic

By Claudio Saunt | October 14, 2020

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

From Kerri K. Greenidge's Cundill-Prize Nominated Black Radical

By Kerri K Greenidge | October 14, 2020

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

From Julius Margolin's Memoir of Life in the Gulag

By Julius Margolin | October 13, 2020

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On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

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When Lamb-to-Human Blood Transfusions Were All the Rage

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The NYRB just bought Milton Glaser's old townhouse.

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Personal Space: Maggie Smith on Her Shift in Artistic Practice

Personal Space: Maggie Smith on Her Shift in Artistic Practice

The Author of Keep Moving Talks to Sari Botton

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Scenes from a Yazidi Refugee Camp, Circa 2016

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It is a vision of hell."">Christina Lamb: "Everything seems to stop and spin.
It is a vision of hell."

By Christina Lamb | October 9, 2020

Writer Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation with Translator Sarah Booker

Writer Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation with Translator Sarah Booker

About Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

By Sarah Booker | October 9, 2020

Elif Shafak on What It Means to Belong in Many Places at Once

Elif Shafak on What It Means to Belong in Many Places at Once

"It worries me immensely, seeing the walls rise higher and higher."

By Elif Shafak | October 9, 2020

Fifteen Years After Katrina: Kristina Kay Robinson and Tom Piazza on How the Hurricane Shaped Our Past and Predicted Our Future

Fifteen Years After Katrina: Kristina Kay Robinson and Tom Piazza on How the Hurricane Shaped Our Past and Predicted Our Future

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 8, 2020

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