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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

Here’s what’s been making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here’s what’s been making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | April 10, 2026

Molly Crabapple on History as a Necromantic Art

Molly Crabapple on History as a Necromantic Art

And Ten Tips to Help Your Conjuring

By Molly Crabapple | April 10, 2026

How <em>Amazing Stories</em> Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction

How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction

Ed Simon Goes Back to When the Past was the Future

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

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Extremist History Behind a Small American Town

By Michael Edison Hayden | April 8, 2026

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

By Literary Hub | April 6, 2026

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

How World War I Created the Army Olive Green We Know Today

How World War I Created the Army Olive Green We Know Today

Kory Stamper on the Wartime Development of the Dyestuff Industry in the United States

By Kory Stamper | April 2, 2026

Before the “Smart” Era: What the Early Years of AI Reveal About Its Future

Before the “Smart” Era: What the Early Years of AI Reveal About Its Future

Sarah Murray on the Slow Creep of Artificial Intelligence Into Everyday Life and Culture

By Sarah Murray | April 2, 2026

If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you.

If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you.

By Brittany Allen | April 1, 2026

The History of the Young Lords of Chicago

The History of the Young Lords of Chicago

Hilda Vasquez Ignatin on the Revolutionary Latino Organizers of the 1960s and 70s

By Hilda Vasquez Ignatin | April 1, 2026

Frederick Jackson Turner’s Groundbreaking Frontier Thesis Was a Flop When He First Read It

Frederick Jackson Turner’s Groundbreaking Frontier Thesis Was a Flop When He First Read It

Megan Kate Nelson on the History of the American Frontier

By Megan Kate Nelson | April 1, 2026

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