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How Do You Write a Biography Filled With Unreliable Witnesses?

How Do You Write a Biography Filled With Unreliable Witnesses?

Emily Midorikawa on the Challenges of Reconstructing Lived Histories

By Emily Midorikawa | May 12, 2021

Early Medieval English literature was a sordid swamp of wanton plagiarism!

Early Medieval English literature was a sordid swamp of wanton plagiarism!

By Jonny Diamond | May 11, 2021

The Obsessive Scholar Who Rescued Iceland’s Ancient Literary Legacy

The Obsessive Scholar Who Rescued Iceland’s Ancient Literary Legacy

How Arni Magnusson Saved a Country’s Stories

By Egill Bjarnason | May 11, 2021

How Racism and Neglect Fueled the Rise of Gang Life in Denver

How Racism and Neglect Fueled the Rise of Gang Life in Denver

Julian Rubinstein Tells the Story of a Neighborhood

By Julian Rubinstein | May 11, 2021

About all those unproduced screenplays William Faulkner wrote . . .

About all those unproduced screenplays William Faulkner wrote . . .

By Walker Caplan | May 10, 2021

Reckoning with the Impact of the Camorra on My Family’s Livelihood

Reckoning with the Impact of the Camorra on My Family’s Livelihood

John Domini on Life Within “The System” in Naples

By John Domini | May 10, 2021

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"If I could only see it!" Read a newly unearthed letter from Tennessee Williams to Eugene O’Neill.

By Walker Caplan | May 7, 2021

A Writer From the Future: Who Was Sci Fi Iconoclast Izumi Suzuki?

By Andrew Ridker | May 7, 2021

Niall Ferguson on the Dangers of Focusing on a Single Disaster Scenario

Niall Ferguson on the Dangers of Focusing on a Single Disaster Scenario

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | May 7, 2021

On the Power of Fiction: 8 Novels About Little-Known Historical Events

On the Power of Fiction: 8 Novels About Little-Known Historical Events

Chanel Cleeton Recommends Zeyn Joukhadar, Vanessa Riley, and More

By Chanel Cleeton | May 7, 2021

After the Genocide, How Much Armenian Art Remains?

After the Genocide, How Much Armenian Art Remains?

Christina Maranci in Conversation with Christopher Lydon on Radio Open Source

By Open Source | May 7, 2021

The Truth is Out There: On the Wild and Divisive World of Cryptozoology

The Truth is Out There: On the Wild and Divisive World of Cryptozoology

Mother-Daughter Duo T. S. Mart and Mel Cabre Consider the History of Mythical Flying Creatures

By T. S. Mart and Mel Cabre | May 6, 2021

On James Baldwin’s Unflinching Exposé of American Greed and Racial Terror

On James Baldwin’s Unflinching Exposé of American Greed and Racial Terror

Eddie Glaude Jr. Rereads Nothing Personal

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. | May 6, 2021

How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s

How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s

Ken Ellingwood on the Social and Political Function of Print Media

By kenellingwood | May 6, 2021

The Women Codebreakers Who Helped Win the War from Bletchley Park

The Women Codebreakers Who Helped Win the War from Bletchley Park

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | May 6, 2021

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