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How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

Sofia Ali-Khan on the Brutal Legacy of the United States’s Westward Expansion

By Sofia Ali-Khan | July 27, 2022

How Pollsters Got the 2016 Election So Wrong, And What They Learned From Their Mistakes

How Pollsters Got the 2016 Election So Wrong, And What They Learned From Their Mistakes

G. Elliott Morris on the Enduring Gulf Between Electoral Predictions and Reality

By G. Elliott Morris | July 27, 2022

Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

By Jonny Diamond | July 26, 2022

On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History

On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History

Satya Doyle Byock Considers the Perennial Preoccupations of One’s Midtwenties

By Satya Doyle Byock | July 26, 2022

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

On the Author of the Most Widely Denounced Novel Published Before World War I

By Hilary A. Hallett | July 26, 2022

How ISIS Filled the Power Vacuum Left By US Forces In Iraq

How ISIS Filled the Power Vacuum Left By US Forces In Iraq

Michael R. Gordon on the Origins of America’s War Against the Islamic State

By Michael R. Gordon | July 26, 2022

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Anna Badkhen Finds Space for Hope and Sanctuary Amidst Histories of Imperial Collapse

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How Corporate America Created Car Culture—And What We Can Do To Change It

By Paris Marx | July 21, 2022

How Madame Mao Remade Hollywood For Chinese Audiences

By Ying Zhu | July 21, 2022

The Challenges of Writing Fiction About the “Darkest Corner of the Dark Ages”

The Challenges of Writing Fiction About the “Darkest Corner of the Dark Ages”

Rebecca Stott On Writing A Novel Set In The Abandoned Ruins Of Sixth-Century Londinium

By Rebecca Stott | July 20, 2022

Evergreen words to live by, from Alice Dunbar Nelson.

Evergreen words to live by, from Alice Dunbar Nelson.

By Katie Yee | July 19, 2022

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

Ash Davidson on Now in November

By Ash Davidson | July 19, 2022

How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

John Wood Sweet on Sex, Love and Rape Culture in Early America

By John Wood Sweet | July 19, 2022

How Trying to Find a Cure For Scurvy Led to the Gimlet

How Trying to Find a Cure For Scurvy Led to the Gimlet

On Limey and Limes on British Royal Navy ships

By Camper English | July 19, 2022

Searching For a Lost Medieval City Somewhere in Wales

Searching For a Lost Medieval City Somewhere in Wales

A Lay-Archaeologist, Pissed-Off Professionals, and Some Farmland Near the Forest of Dean

By Matthew Green | July 18, 2022

The Republican Party Now Backs an Anti-Democratic Insurgency

The Republican Party Now Backs an Anti-Democratic Insurgency

Malcolm Nance on the Trump Insurgents and the Conspiracy Thinking of Their MAGA-Hat-Colored World

By Malcolm Nance | July 18, 2022

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