• History

    Policing

    Saying No to Cop City: Reviving a Radical Black Liberation Movement in Atlanta and Beyond

    Curtis Duncan on George Floyd, Police Brutality, Community Organizations, and More

     
    By Curtis Duncan  May 21, 2025
    Cults

    A Question of Free Will: Inside the Final Days of Katherine Mansfield

    By Allison Buccola  May 20, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Include as Little History as You Can: The Danger of Explaining Too Much in Historical Fiction

    By Jesse Browner  May 20, 2025
    Philosophy

    What Spinoza’s Metaphysics Can Reveal to Us About the Creative Process

    By Madeleine Thien  May 20, 2025
    literary criticism

    L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

    By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
    History of Science

    When Bees Discover the Scientists Who Dedicated Their Lives to Studying Them

    By Peter Kuper  May 16, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Ancient History

    The Woman With the Axe: On Fu Hao, Ancient China’s Warrior Queen

    By Rachel McCarthy James  May 15, 2025
    Supreme Court

    Does the Supreme Court Really Just Run on Vibes Now?

    By Leah Litman  May 15, 2025
    Prehistory

    How Language Evolved Out of Cultural Exchange Between Europe and the Near East

    By Laura Spinney  May 15, 2025
    Culinary History

    Why Are We So Obsessed With Avocados?

    Sarah Allaback and Monique F. Parsons Track the Evolution of America's Fixation

    By Sarah Allaback and Monique F. Parsons  May 21, 2025
    The Hub

    What to read next if you loved Sinners.

    By Brittany Allen  May 14, 2025
    Sexuality

    Why the World’s First Celebrity Sex Therapist Had to Flee the Nazis

    By Daniel Brook  May 14, 2025
    Apocalypses

    And If This Is(n’t) the End of the World? Why We Dread—and Desire—Apocalypse

    By Alex Foster  May 14, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

    Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna Explore AI History, the Cold War, and a Fatally Overhyped Idea

    By Literary Hub  May 13, 2025
    Nature

    On Science, Ancient Philosophy, and Re-Enchanting Nature

    By M.D. Usher  May 13, 2025
    Transphobia

    How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans

    By Tracy Slater  May 12, 2025
    Ukraine

    Centuries of Sediment: Unearthing a History of Violence, Conquest, and Resistance in Ukraine

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  May 12, 2025
    What If?

    Mushroom Cloud Over Manhattan: What Would Happen in the First Few Hours of Nuclear War

    Mark Lynas Looks at a Worst-Case Scenario—and How to Prevent it From Becoming a Reality

    By Mark Lynas  May 12, 2025
    Antifascism

    What If It Is Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

    By David Renton  May 12, 2025
    Catholicism

    You Don’t Have to Believe in God to Find Hope in Pope Leo

    By Aron Solomon  May 9, 2025
    Motherhood

    What Motherhood in Kenya Reveals About the Nature of Family

    By Abigail Leonard  May 9, 2025
    World War II

    How a Group of Fearless American Women Defied Convention to Defeat the Nazis

    Becky Aikman on the “Atta-Girls,” the Pilots Who Chased Adventure During the Second World War

    By Becky Aikman  May 8, 2025
    Women at War

    Remembering the Unacknowledged Sacrifices of the Red Army’s Female Snipers

    By Shelly Sanders  May 8, 2025
    World War II

    From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

    By Natasha Lester  May 8, 2025
    TV Writing

    Enjoying the Sweet Stink of The Gilded Age in the Age of Billionaires

    By Danielle Teller  May 15, 2025
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