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What Weimar Berlin’s Most Famous Plays Revealed About Artistic Freedom

What Weimar Berlin’s Most Famous Plays Revealed About Artistic Freedom

Wendy Lesser on the Slow Rise of Nazism and Its Impact on German Theater

By Wendy Lesser | September 9, 2026

A Legal History of Anti-Chinese Racism in America

A Legal History of Anti-Chinese Racism in America

From Beth Lew-Williams’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted John Doe Chinaman

By Beth Lew-Williams | September 9, 2026

What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe

What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe

From Alexander Lee's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted The First Ghetto

By Alexander Lee | September 8, 2026

This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell”

This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell”

The Most Notorious Party “Game” in Literary History

By Literary Hub | September 8, 2026

How Fordism and Fascism Gave Birth to Modern Car Culture

How Fordism and Fascism Gave Birth to Modern Car Culture

The Zetkin Collective Explores the Intersections of Economic Practice and Authoritarianism in the 20th Century

By The Zetkin Collective | September 4, 2026

Latin America’s Agrarian Novels Chronicled the Birth of a New World

Latin America’s Agrarian Novels Chronicled the Birth of a New World

Ericka Beckman on How These 1920s Spanish Novels Reshaped Land and Labor

By Ericka Beckman | September 4, 2026

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On Edmond Albius, the Enslaved Man Who Pioneered the Pollination of Vanilla

By Eric T. Jennings | September 4, 2026

How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

By Louise Brangan | September 4, 2026

Remembering Gloria Steinem, author and agent of the second wave.

By Brittany Allen | September 3, 2026

The Latest Literary Scam: Emailing the Long-Dead Legends of 20th-Century Literature

The Latest Literary Scam: Emailing the Long-Dead Legends of 20th-Century Literature

Adam Hochschild on Getting an Email Addressed to George Orwell

By Adam Hochschild | September 3, 2026

Inside the Tumultuous Private Life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan

Inside the Tumultuous Private Life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan

From Sam Dalrymple’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted Shattered Lands

By Sam Dalrymple | September 3, 2026

Why is Emily Wilson retranslating <em>The Odyssey</em> from scratch?

Why is Emily Wilson retranslating The Odyssey from scratch?

By James Folta | September 2, 2026

The Jerusalem of the East: When Billy Graham Visited Pyongyang

The Jerusalem of the East: When Billy Graham Visited Pyongyang

From Jonathan Cheng’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted Korean Messiah

By Jonathan Cheng | September 2, 2026

On the Fact and Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut’s Dresden

On the Fact and Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut’s Dresden

Susan Farrell Considers a Source of Inspiration for Slaughterhouse-Five

By Susan Farrell | August 31, 2026

Meet Pierre “Peter” Ortiz, Undercover Spy, Marine and Resistance Fighter

Meet Pierre “Peter” Ortiz, Undercover Spy, Marine and Resistance Fighter

Nicholas Reynolds and Katie S. Sanders Remember the Man Who Saved Countless Lives During World War II

By Nicholas Reynolds and Katie S. Sanders | August 31, 2026

Catherine Lacey on an Antifascist Classic of Catalan Literature

Catherine Lacey on an Antifascist Classic of Catalan Literature

In Praise of Montserrat Roig’s Goodbye Ramona, Translated by Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall

By Catherine Lacey | August 26, 2026

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