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The Problem with Calling Nature “Wild”

The Problem with Calling Nature “Wild”

“When you seek wildness, where, precisely, do you go?”

By Phillip Vannini and April Vannini | November 16, 2022

A Brief History of the Attempts to Unionize Walmart

A Brief History of the Attempts to Unionize Walmart

Rick Wartzman on the Behemoth’s Antipathy Toward Organized Labor

By Rick Wartzman | November 16, 2022

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

“If you come to live there, come to know it, you will live in other times.”

By Brigitta Olubas | November 15, 2022

A Brief Excavation of the Bows, Arrows, and Chariots in King Tut’s Tomb

A Brief Excavation of the Bows, Arrows, and Chariots in King Tut’s Tomb

Toby Wilkinson Examines 18th-Dynasty Egyptian Technology

By Toby Wilkinson | November 15, 2022

On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

Cat Fitzpatrick’s Celebration of “Absurd Embellishments”

By Cat Fitzpatrick | November 15, 2022

Cary Grant as <em>The Acrobat</em>: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn’t Really Exist

Cary Grant as The Acrobat: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn’t Really Exist

Edward J. Delaney in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 14, 2022

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A Brief History of Shipwrecks in Literature

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How Human Curiosity Unlocked the Scientific Secrets of the Universe

By Brian Thomas Swimme | November 11, 2022

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army

Alexander Rose Talks to Andrew Keen About the American Civil War

By Keen On | November 11, 2022

How Putin Thinks Like a Warmongering 19th-Century Imperialist and Why Ukraine Will Be His Last Colonial War

How Putin Thinks Like a Warmongering 19th-Century Imperialist and Why Ukraine Will Be His Last Colonial War

Mark Galeotti in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 11, 2022

Builders and Destroyers: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe

Builders and Destroyers: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe

Ian Kershaw in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 10, 2022

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Emily Van Duyne’s Tribute to a “Lover of Unreason and an Exile”

By Emily Van Duyne | November 9, 2022

Alia Trabucco Zerán on Writing About Women Who Kill

Alia Trabucco Zerán on Writing About Women Who Kill

“Their crimes are a privileged window from which to observe how the very meaning of womanhood has changed over time.”

By Alia Trabucco Zerán | November 9, 2022

Our Man in Tokyo: Could Pearl Harbor Have Been Avoided With More Skillful American Diplomacy?

Our Man in Tokyo: Could Pearl Harbor Have Been Avoided With More Skillful American Diplomacy?

Steve Kemper in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 9, 2022

Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s <em>Metamorphoses</em>

Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Stephanie McCarter on Finding New Meaning in a Classic

By Stephanie McCarter | November 8, 2022

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