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How Art Can Transport Us to the Past

How Art Can Transport Us to the Past

Stephanie Sy-Quia on Writing About Her Grandparents

By Stephanie Sy-Quia | April 15, 2026

An Unsolved Puzzle: On Identity, Silence and a Legacy of Violence in Colombia

An Unsolved Puzzle: On Identity, Silence and a Legacy of Violence in Colombia

Adriana E. Ramírez Considers Her Grandmother's Life Though the Lens of Her Country's Recent History

By Adriana E. Ramírez | April 15, 2026

We’re All Wrong About Men and Feminism

We’re All Wrong About Men and Feminism

Rosa Campbell on How Men Responded to The Hite Report

By Rosa Campbell | April 15, 2026

Learning to Live With <em>Invidia</em>: What Petrarch Has To Teach Us About Envy

Learning to Live With Invidia: What Petrarch Has To Teach Us About Envy

Peter Jones on the Ways We Can Apply Medieval Philosophy to Our Modern Lives

By Peter Jones | April 14, 2026

How an Animators’ Strike Led to the Making of <em>Song of the South</em>

How an Animators’ Strike Led to the Making of Song of the South

Vicky Osterweil on the Intersection of Labor Conflict, Nationalism and White Supremacy Within Disney Studios

By Vicky Osterweil | April 14, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Tom Stoppard’s <em>Arcadia</em> Premieres in London

This Week in Literary History: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia Premieres in London

“It’s the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.”

By Literary Hub | April 13, 2026

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By Brittany Allen | April 10, 2026

Molly Crabapple on History as a Necromantic Art

By Molly Crabapple | April 10, 2026

How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction

By Ed Simon | April 10, 2026

On Learning About the Enslaved Men Who Dug South Carolina’s Lowcountry Canals

On Learning About the Enslaved Men Who Dug South Carolina’s Lowcountry Canals

Virginia McGee Richards on the Building of the New Cut Canal

By Virginia McGee Richards | April 10, 2026

On the Global Conspiracy to Make Childcare More Expensive

On the Global Conspiracy to Make Childcare More Expensive

Alex Mayyasi Considers the Impact of Technology and Inflation on Rising Childcare Costs

By Alex Mayyasi | April 8, 2026

The Extremist History Behind a Small American Town

The Extremist History Behind a Small American Town

Michael Edison Hayden on the Origins of White Supremacy Group VDARE

By Michael Edison Hayden | April 8, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Maurice Sendak’s <em>Where the Wild Things Are</em> is Published

This Week in Literary History: Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is Published

Your Favorite and Ours

By Literary Hub | April 6, 2026

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | April 3, 2026

Living the Ex-Pat Life in Moscow at the End of the Soviet Empire

Living the Ex-Pat Life in Moscow at the End of the Soviet Empire

Simon Morrison Explores the Aftermath of the Collapse of Communism in Russia

By Simon Morrison | April 3, 2026

In Praise of the Old WASP Elite (Because Dignified Hypocrisy is Better Than Garish Cruelty)

In Praise of the Old WASP Elite (Because Dignified Hypocrisy is Better Than Garish Cruelty)

In Which Robert Leleux Reads an Alarming Number of Biographies About Rich, White Americans

By Robert Leleux | April 3, 2026

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