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The Anxiety of the Pilot Upon Attempting to Land a Plane

The Anxiety of the Pilot Upon Attempting to Land a Plane

On Night-Flying, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and a Crisis Over Patagonia

By María Sonia Cristoff | October 19, 2018

Worst Pope of All Time?

Worst Pope of All Time?

Cronyism, Adultery, Torture... He Was No Francis

By Simon Sebag Montefiore | October 17, 2018

Uwe Johnson: A Chapter a Day for a Year

Uwe Johnson: A Chapter a Day for a Year

Read a diary entry a day this week

By Uwe Johnson | October 9, 2018

Meet the Beloved Pet Ravens of Charles Dickens

Meet the Beloved Pet Ravens of Charles Dickens

Grip I, Grip II, and, You Guessed It, Grip III

By Christopher Skaife | October 2, 2018

The Literary Heroes of Teen Benjamin Franklin

The Literary Heroes of Teen Benjamin Franklin

From Socrates to The Spectator

By Nick Bunker | October 1, 2018

On the British Brothers Who Infiltrated Nazi-Occupied France

On the British Brothers Who Infiltrated Nazi-Occupied France

"Theirs Would Be a Lonely Struggle"

By Charles Glass | September 28, 2018

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How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings

How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings

Sherilynn A. Ifill on Justice (and Its Absence) in the 1930s

By Sherilynn A. Ifill | September 26, 2018

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By Leonid Yuzefovich | September 20, 2018

Who Exactly Was the Original Jezebel?

Who Exactly Was the Original Jezebel?

How Women's Power Was First Linked to Sexuality and Deception

By Wednesday Martin | September 20, 2018

Acting While Black in the Civil Rights Era

Acting While Black in the Civil Rights Era

On the Challenges Facing Black TV Actors in the 1960s

By Ann duCille | September 17, 2018

The Political Drama That Almost Grounded Project Apollo

The Political Drama That Almost Grounded Project Apollo

"We don’t know a damn thing about the surface of the Moon."

By John Logsdon | September 13, 2018

Telling the Unlikely Story of an Auschwitz Survivor

Telling the Unlikely Story of an Auschwitz Survivor

Heather Morris on the Final Years of Lale Sokolov

By Heather Morris | September 5, 2018

We Know Much Less About Evolution Than We Thought

We Know Much Less About Evolution Than We Thought

The Tree of Life is a Freaky Tree

By David Quammen | August 29, 2018

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