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On the Very Scary Rise of the First Literary Vampire

On the Very Scary Rise of the First Literary Vampire

The Time Byron and Shelley and Godwin and Polidori Freaked Themselves Out

By Nick Groom | October 25, 2018

The Moment When Punk Collided With Poetry

The Moment When Punk Collided With Poetry

On the Rock 'n' Roll Art of Patti Smith, Sam Shepard, and More

By Kembrew McLeod | October 19, 2018

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

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The Literary Heroes of Teen Benjamin Franklin

By Nick Bunker | October 1, 2018

On the British Brothers Who Infiltrated Nazi-Occupied France

By Charles Glass | September 28, 2018

When the Food We Ate Was Literally Poison (Even More So Than Now)

By Deborah Blum | September 27, 2018

We Really Still Need Howard Zinn

We Really Still Need Howard Zinn

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Why His Writing is a Gift to Today's Activists

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | September 27, 2018

The Rise of Arthur Ashe: Tennis Star, Civil Rights Activist

The Rise of Arthur Ashe: Tennis Star, Civil Rights Activist

"I finally stopped trying to be part of white society."

By Raymond Arsenault | September 26, 2018

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

The Mysterious Case of a Mongolian Murder That Might Have Been...

The Mysterious Case of a Mongolian Murder That Might Have Been...

Leonid Yuzefovich Follows a Footnote Across 100 Years and 1,000 Miles

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

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