To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe

To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe

Ed Simon Explores the Terror of Being Buried Alive and Americanism in Poe’s Work

By Ed Simon | October 8, 2025

Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine

Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine

Ilan Pappé Explores Political Futures in Palestine and Israel

By Ilan Pappé | October 7, 2025

Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika

Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika

Mark Harman Considers the Striking Social Commentary of the Unfinished Novel

By Mark Harman | October 6, 2025

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | October 3, 2025

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

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

By Brittany Allen | October 3, 2025

Any Coloradan with a cell phone will soon be able to access banned books for free.

Any Coloradan with a cell phone will soon be able to access banned books for free.

By Brittany Allen | October 2, 2025

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Funeral For a Postponed Death: On Burying Argentina’s Disappeared

By Mariana Enriquez | October 2, 2025

Re(se)a(r)ching For Connection: Navigating the Fact and Fiction of Alien Abduction Stories

By Ilana Masad | October 2, 2025

Who Was the Real, Historical Mary, Mother of Jesus?

By James D. Tabor | September 30, 2025

When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis

When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis

Christopher C. Gorham on Art Theft and Artistic Solidarity in Occupied France

By Christopher C. Gorham | September 29, 2025

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

Ilan Stavans and Peter Gilliver Discuss the Philosophical and Pragmatic Aspects of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Ilan Stavans | September 29, 2025

What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

Martha A. Sandweiss Unearths the Hidden History Behind a Moment of Westward Expansion Preserved for Posterity

By Martha A. Sandweiss | September 29, 2025

Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library.

Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library.

By Brittany Allen | September 26, 2025

How Modern Life Has Been Shaped By the Power to Choose

How Modern Life Has Been Shaped By the Power to Choose

From Sophia Rosenfeld’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “The Age of Choice”

By Sophia Rosenfeld | September 26, 2025

How the German Peasants’ War Exposed 16th-Century Europe’s Fragile Foundations

How the German Peasants’ War Exposed 16th-Century Europe’s Fragile Foundations

From Lyndal Roper's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Summer of Fire and Blood”

By Lyndal Roper | September 25, 2025

From Leninism to Legalism: On the Ideological Evolution of Soviet Dissidents

From Leninism to Legalism: On the Ideological Evolution of Soviet Dissidents

From Benjamin Nathans's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause”

By Benjamin Nathans | September 24, 2025

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