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Meet the Man Brought to Trial for Murdering the English Language

Meet the Man Brought to Trial for Murdering the English Language

(In the Press, by a Jury of His Enemies)

By Emily Temple | March 18, 2019

Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston

Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston

Writing Novels, Reporting on Murders, Curating Folk Concerts... She Could Do It All

By Literary Hub | March 15, 2019

It Was All Greek to Her: With the Sappho-Obsessed in 1900s Paris

It Was All Greek to Her: With the Sappho-Obsessed in 1900s Paris

Eva Palmer Sikelianos, Pre-Modern Modernist

By Artemis Leontis | March 15, 2019

Tracing the Incredible Journey of Polynesians Around the Globe

Tracing the Incredible Journey of Polynesians Around the Globe

"There is no written record of these events..."

By Christina Thompson | March 14, 2019

Honoré de Balzac's Legendary Love Affair With His Anonymous Critic

Honoré de Balzac's Legendary Love Affair With His Anonymous Critic

Or: How to Marry a Famous Writer

By Emily Temple | March 14, 2019

The History of Humanity, As Revealed By Its Walls

The History of Humanity, As Revealed By Its Walls

On the Boundaries That Define Our Lives

By Paul Crenshaw | March 14, 2019

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On the Hidden History of Queer Women in Baseball

By Britni de la Cretaz | March 13, 2019

Brooklyn's Earliest, Secret Enclaves of Queer Life

By Hugh Ryan | March 13, 2019

The Time I Met New York's Patron Saint of Typewriters

By Thaisa Frank | March 12, 2019

How the United States Became a Part of Latin America

How the United States Became a Part of Latin America

On Race, Borders and Belonging

By Carrie Gibson | March 8, 2019

From Shakespeare to Tolkien, Treasures from the NYC Antiquarian Book Fair

From Shakespeare to Tolkien, Treasures from the NYC Antiquarian Book Fair

Sarah Funke Butler Surveys Some Cool Old Stuff

By Sarah Funke Butler | March 8, 2019

Virginia Woolf's Depression Shouldn't Define Her

Virginia Woolf's Depression Shouldn't Define Her

How We Often Overlook the Writer's Otherwise Happy Life

By Maggie Gee | March 6, 2019

Dictators Kill Poets: On Federico García Lorca's Last Days

Dictators Kill Poets: On Federico García Lorca's Last Days

"And now his blood comes out singing."

By Aaron Shulman | March 5, 2019

If de Tocqueville Predicted Twitter, Balzac Knew Trump Would Use It

If de Tocqueville Predicted Twitter, Balzac Knew Trump Would Use It

Liesl Schillinger on Reading Balzac in the Age of Trump

By Liesl Schillinger | February 26, 2019

The Black Women Who Wrote America's Earliest Autofiction

The Black Women Who Wrote America's Earliest Autofiction

On Following a Radical Lineage Back to the Slave Narrative

By Maryam Kazeem | February 25, 2019

The Forgotten Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii

The Forgotten Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii

A Dark Chapter in the History of Religious Persecution

By Duncan Ryūken Williams | February 25, 2019

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