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On Francis Drake the Pirate, Queen Elizabeth I, and the Age of Empires

On Francis Drake the Pirate, Queen Elizabeth I, and the Age of Empires

Laurence Bergreen in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 26, 2021

How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

Kelsey Osgood on the Life of Vivien Eliot and a Misguided Historical Narrative That Won't Go Away

By Kelsey Osgood | March 26, 2021

Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

Daniel Heller-Roazen on Fleeting Narrators, Disappearing Text, and "The Hunter Gracchus"

By Daniel Heller-Roazen | March 26, 2021

How the US Government Created an (Almost) Exclusively White Middle Class

How the US Government Created an (Almost) Exclusively White Middle Class

Dorothy A. Brown Considers the Long History of Racism in the US Taxation System

By Dorothy A. Brown | March 25, 2021

From Jim Crow to Now: On the Realities of Traveling While Black

From Jim Crow to Now: On the Realities of Traveling While Black

Mia Bay Maps the History of Segregated Travel

By Mia Bay | March 25, 2021

What Is it About America That Generates So Much Anti-Immigrant Vitriol?

What Is it About America That Generates So Much Anti-Immigrant Vitriol?

Roya Hakakian in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 25, 2021

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Frank McDonough on the Death Throes of the Third Reich

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | March 25, 2021

A new original draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has just been discovered.

By Walker Caplan | March 24, 2021

Voices of the People: 5 Books That Expand Our Ideas
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Helen Frankenthaler: From High Society to Downtown Art Scene in 1950s NYC

Helen Frankenthaler: From High Society to Downtown Art Scene in 1950s NYC

Alexander Nemerov on the Life and Times an American Painter

By Alexander Nemerov | March 23, 2021

Listen to a wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

Listen to a wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

By Walker Caplan | March 22, 2021

How Mark Twain Documented the Dawn of the Tourist Age

How Mark Twain Documented the Dawn of the Tourist Age

Marco d'Eramo on Innocents Abroad, the Account of an Early Transatlantic Cruise

By Marco d'Eramo | March 22, 2021

Patron Saint of the Wall Street Fraudster: Who Was <br>Charles Ponzi?

Patron Saint of the Wall Street Fraudster: Who Was
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Dan Davies on Rise and Fall of the Eponymous Schemer

By Dan Davies | March 22, 2021

How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy

How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy

Paulina Bren on Life at New York's Most Famous Women’s-Only Hotel

By Paulina Bren | March 19, 2021

Sara Franklin on the Powerful Unsung Legacy of Edna Lewis, A Great Southern Chef

Sara Franklin on the Powerful Unsung Legacy of Edna Lewis, A Great Southern Chef

Chef Diep Tran Talks to the Editor of Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original

By Diep Tran | March 19, 2021

Thelma Golden on the Future of Harlem

Thelma Golden on the Future of Harlem

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