• History

    The Writing Life

    No One Gets Sylvia Plath

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 6, 2020
    Travel

    Cees Nooteboom Takes a Wintry Ride Through Venice

    By Cees Nooteboom  November 6, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Longstanding Love Affair of Cocaine and Surfing

    By New Books Network  November 6, 2020
    Family History

    Between the Cane Rows: Principles of Making in the Cycles of Power

    By Patrick Rosal  November 5, 2020
    On Memoir

    The First Mughal Emperor’s Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

    By William Dalrymple  November 5, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Secret Intelligence and Betrayal Amid the French Resistance

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   November 5, 2020
    Classical Music

    I Knew How to Play Bach, But That Didn’t Mean I Was Good

    By Dan Moller  November 4, 2020
    Arts and Crafts

    On the Covert Role of Knitting During the French Revolution and World War II

    By Loretta Napoleoni  November 4, 2020
    Art History

    Why Byzantium? Studying the Art of the Middle Ages as a Queer Latinx

    By Roland Betancourt  November 4, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery Undermined White Supremacy

    By New Books Network  November 4, 2020
    Soviet Union

    Growing Up in the Soviet Union’s Hero City

    By Valzhyna Mort  November 3, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    On the Connection Between Whaling and Imperialism in the Bering Strait

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   November 3, 2020
    Well-Versed

    Megan Rosenbloom on the Macabre History of Books Bound in Human Skin

    By Well-Versed   November 3, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Conventional Conflicts Become Nuclear Wars

    By New Books Network  November 3, 2020
    On Race

    White Supremacy Has Always Been More Powerful Than Its Loudest Proponents

    By Literary Hub  November 2, 2020
    Underreported

    Masha Gessen on the Role of Memory After State-Sponsored Atrocity

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  November 2, 2020
    Liberalism

    Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

    By Pankaj Mishra  November 2, 2020
    New Books Network

    Conservatism is Always Evolving

    By New Books Network  November 2, 2020
    Halloween

    A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

    By Roy A. Meals, MD  October 30, 2020
    The Hub

    When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

    By Corinne Segal  October 29, 2020
    Biography

    A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

    By Emily Van Duyne  October 29, 2020
    Keen On

    How New York’s Leaders Enabled Trump All the Way to the Presidency

    By Keen On  October 29, 2020
    Migrations

    Please Don’t Feed the Gringos: The US-Mexico Divide

    By Claudio Lomnitz  October 29, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Why So Few Messerschmitt 109s Survived WWII

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 29, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    On the Great Cairo Fire of 1952

    By Amin Maalouf  October 29, 2020
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