• History

    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    “Homes, Workshops, Palaces, Shrines.” On the Portability and Mobility of Hordes

    By Marie Favereau  October 15, 2021
    Monarchy

    On Troublesome Women in the House of Windsor and the Allure of Royal Outsiders

    By Wendy Holden  October 15, 2021
    Keen On

    Vladimir Alexandrov on the Extraordinary Life of Boris Savinkov

    By Keen On  October 15, 2021
    History

    How Suzanne Valadon Reclaimed Her Image By Painting Herself Naked

    By Jennifer Higgie  October 15, 2021
    The Writer's Life

    “You Only Write if You Have To.“ On W.G. Sebald’s Life and Work

    By Carole Angier  October 14, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    “More Than a Fearful Refusal To Participate.“ On the Complexities of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion

    By Marjoleine Kars  October 14, 2021
    Opera

    How Opera Invented the Modern Fan

    By Alison Kinney  October 14, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On the Controversies of WWII Military Leader George S. Patton

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Remembering Harold Pinter’s anti-Iraq War Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

    By Walker Caplan  October 13, 2021
    Identity

    Tracing the Filipino Diaspora in the Arc of the Global Age: A Reading List

    By Albert Samaha  October 13, 2021
    Feminist History

    How NOW Attempted to Exclude the Third Woman’s Alliance From Feminist History

    By Patricia Romney  October 13, 2021
    Keen On

    Daniel Sokatch on the Chronicle of Israel and Palestine

    By Keen On  October 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Everything you need to know about the Sally Rooney/Israel controversy.

    By Walker Caplan  October 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Read this newly discovered 1949 Ann Petry essay about Harlem.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  October 12, 2021
    Plagiarism

    Dorland v. Larson: On the Legal Disputes at the Heart of “Bad Art Friend”

    By Steven Wright  October 12, 2021
    Keen On

    Kyle Harper on the Global History of Infectious Disease

    By Keen On  October 12, 2021
    Refugees

    The Grief of Displacement: On Being a Child in a Refugee Camp

    By Mondiant Dogon with Jenna Krajeski  October 12, 2021
    Keen On

    Jennifer Higgie on the Forgotten Perspective of Women in Art

    By Keen On  October 12, 2021
    Country Music

    Kelefa Sanneh: What Actually is “Country Music”?

    By Kelefa Sanneh  October 8, 2021
    Jewish History

    Community and Care: On Squirrel Hill and the Tree of Life Shooting

    By Mark Oppenheimer  October 8, 2021
    Keen On

    Matthew Pearl on the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America

    By Keen On  October 8, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    The Heavy History of Names: On Political Forgetting and Erasure in India

    By Manan Ahmed Asif  October 8, 2021
    New Books Network

    Cadwell Turnbull on the Social Realities Behind Speculative Fiction

    By New Books Network  October 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Instead of acting like Kidney Person, be more like these 19th-century literary haters.

    By Walker Caplan  October 7, 2021
    On Racism

    Colin Kaepernick on the Link Between Abolition and Black Liberation

    By Colin Kaepernick  October 7, 2021
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