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Why Were the 1970s So... Weird?

Why Were the 1970s So... Weird?

When the Counterculture Optimism Receded, Things Got Ugly

By Erik Davis | August 12, 2019

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

Gwerful Mechain, Author of Classics Like "Poem to the Vagina" and "Poem to the Penis"

By Lauren Cocking | August 9, 2019

On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User's Manual

On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User's Manual

Caitlin Horrocks Offers Some Advice for Writing Into the Past

By Caitlin Horrocks | August 9, 2019

5 Artists Who Explore Japanese-American Incarceration and Internment

5 Artists Who Explore Japanese-American Incarceration and Internment

Brandon Shimoda on Heather Nagami, Rea Tajiri, Aisuke Kondo, Brynn Saito, and Kevin Miyazaki

By Brandon Shimoda | August 8, 2019

Rick Moody on the Case of the Cursed Charles Manson Autograph

Rick Moody on the Case of the Cursed Charles Manson Autograph

A Very Unlucky Postcard

By Rick Moody | August 8, 2019

On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

Turns Out It Was Actually a Fear of Empowered Women

By Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner | August 8, 2019

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The Painter's Wife vs. The Poet's Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

The Painter's Wife vs. The Poet's Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

Shawna Lemay on the Indistinct Line Between Background and Foreground

By Shawna Lemay | August 6, 2019

What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

Kate McQuade on Yaa Gyasi, Art Spiegelman, Tim O'Brien, and More

By Kate McQuade | August 6, 2019

How the Long Persecution<br> of the Rhineland Jews Shaped Karl Marx

How the Long Persecution
of the Rhineland Jews Shaped Karl Marx

A Revolutionary Spirit Born of the Crusades and Napoleonic Wars

By Shlomo Avineri | August 6, 2019

Failed Utopias: Can You Buy an Immaculate World With Dirty Money?

Failed Utopias: Can You Buy an Immaculate World With Dirty Money?

Caite Dolan-Leach on the Oneida Experiment

By Caite Dolan-Leach | August 6, 2019

What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

Julie Philips on Reproductive Justice and the Great 20th-Century Mother-Writers

By Julie Phillips | August 5, 2019

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of 'Barbaric'

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of 'Barbaric'

On the 'Monstrous Development of Technology'

By Walter Benjamin | August 2, 2019

The Life of Afong Moy, the First Chinese Woman in America

The Life of Afong Moy, the First Chinese Woman in America

Contending with the Orientalist Fears and Fantasies of a Young Nation

By Nancy E. Davis | August 2, 2019

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