• History

    Medieval History

    Cheap Writing Surfaces and Medieval Bureaucracy Helped Popularize the Alphabet

    By Judith Flanders  October 21, 2020
    Art and Politics

    Czesław Miłosz Confronts the Dark and Immutable Order of the World

    By Czesław Miłosz  October 21, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Liberal Idealism Has Failed Modern Diplomacy

    By New Books Network  October 21, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

    By Daniel Tam-Claiborne  October 20, 2020
    Lit Century

    Why Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life

    By Lit Century   October 20, 2020
    On Race

    When a Young Malcolm X Addressed a Hartford Housing Project

    By Les Payne and Tamara Payne  October 20, 2020
    Nightlife

    The Center of the Universe? Capturing New York City 90s Nightlife

    By Gabriel Sanchez  October 20, 2020
    Keen On

    Why Should We Care About So-Called Genius?

    By Keen On  October 20, 2020
    Revolutions

    The Complicated Resistance Efforts of Enslaved Women in the West Indies

    By Stella Dadzie  October 20, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    How Capitalism Shaped Our Modern Image of Dinosaurs

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   October 20, 2020
    Discovering Old Manuscripts

    How a Rare and Ancient Manuscript Moved Me to Write a Novel

    By Natalka Burian  October 19, 2020
    Republicanism

    The GOP Lost Its Way Long Before Trump

    By Carlos Lozada  October 19, 2020
    Photography

    What Does It Mean to Look at Photos of Imagined Violence?

    By Sarah Sentilles  October 19, 2020
    New Books Network

    What Heidegger’s Nazism Means for Modern Philosophy

    By New Books Network  October 19, 2020
    Criticism

    The Delight of Daniel Mendelsohn

    By James K.A. Smith  October 16, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Kathryn Lasky on the Character Perspective That Most
    Interests Her

    By NewberyTart   October 16, 2020
    The Hub

    A Shakespeare First Folio sold this week for $10 million.

    By Corinne Segal  October 15, 2020
    Dictators

    From Napoleon to Trump, on the
    Tyrant As Troll

    By Liesl Schillinger  October 15, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Rebecca Solnit on Black Swans, Slim Chances, and the 2020 Presidential Election

    By Rebecca Solnit  October 15, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Jason Diamond on Suburban Sprawl, AKA Attack of the Blob

    By The Maris Review  October 15, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Fatima Bhutto: No One Who Has Suffered the Handprint of America Is Surprised by Police Brutality

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 15, 2020
    Keen On

    How Neoliberalism Created the New Age of Monopolies

    By Keen On  October 15, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Hitler’s Tiger Tanks: When Symbols of Invasion Become Tourist Attractions

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 15, 2020
    Singer Songwriters

    How Does the Great Dolly Parton Write a Song?

    By Lydia R. Hamessley  October 14, 2020
    Keen On

    Voting Isn’t Guaranteed—Black Women Know That Better Than Anyone

    By Keen On  October 14, 2020
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