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Watch Kathy Acker read from <em>The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec</em>.

Watch Kathy Acker read from The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

Has anybody seen some loose ceremonial swords? The Truman Presidential Library wants them back.

Has anybody seen some loose ceremonial swords? The Truman Presidential Library wants them back.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

Andrea Pitzer on the Heroic—and Horrific—Arctic Voyages of William Barents

Andrea Pitzer on the Heroic—and Horrific—Arctic Voyages of William Barents

From the Time to Eat the Dogs Podcast with Michael Robinson

By Time to Eat the Dogs | April 12, 2021

Honoring the Unsung History of Black and Brown Farmers

Honoring the Unsung History of Black and Brown Farmers

Natalie Baszile on Land Ownership, Food Justice, and Community Ties

By Natalie Baszile | April 12, 2021

Judy Batalion on Understanding the Holocaust as a Story of Defiance

Judy Batalion on Understanding the Holocaust as a Story of Defiance

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | April 12, 2021

On the Long Tradition of the Imitative Performance of Blackness

On the Long Tradition of the Imitative Performance of Blackness

Ayanna Thompson Considers the History of Minstrelsy, Racial Tropes, and the White Gaze

By Ayanna Thompson | April 12, 2021

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How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

By Shanna Greene Benjamin | April 12, 2021

Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code book.

By Walker Caplan | April 9, 2021

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

By Stephanie Dray | April 9, 2021

Noa Tishby on Trying to Uncomplicate Israel

Noa Tishby on Trying to Uncomplicate Israel

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | April 9, 2021

This Is Who We Are: Gish Jen and Peter Ho Davies on the Long History of Anti-Asian Racism in the US

This Is Who We Are: Gish Jen and Peter Ho Davies on the Long History of Anti-Asian Racism in the US

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 8, 2021

To Write a History of Pittsburgh is to Write a History of America

To Write a History of Pittsburgh is to Write a History of America

Ed Simon on the Paris of Appalachia

By Ed Simon | April 8, 2021

Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way

Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way

Victoria Law on the Historical Inevitability of the Modern Day Prison System

By Victoria Law | April 8, 2021

A Conversation with Selma van de Perre, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

A Conversation with Selma van de Perre, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | April 8, 2021

Janice P. Nimura: The Case for Admiring “Unlikable” Women

Janice P. Nimura: The Case for Admiring “Unlikable” Women

This Week on Just the Right Book Podcast with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | April 8, 2021

Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

By Walker Caplan | April 7, 2021

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