• History

    Literary History

    The Night W.S. Merwin Was Stripped Naked by a Charismatic Buddhist Leader

    By Emily Temple  September 30, 2020
    On Translation

    How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert

    By Sara Reggiani  September 30, 2020
    Basketball

    How a Poem Ends Up As a Basketball Epic

    By Inua Ellams  September 30, 2020
    Change Lab

    Bob Davidson on Rising Above Segregation through Persistence and Resistance

    By Change Lab  September 30, 2020
    Beauty

    Why Are We Fascinated by Strange Faces?

    By Namwali Serpell  September 29, 2020
    Protest

    Funeral in Effigy for the Statue of a Klansman Confederate General

    By Connor Towne O'Neill  September 29, 2020
    Indigenous Voices

    On Wild Salmon, Hockey Dreams and Life in the Saanich Homeland

    By Sara Sinclair  September 29, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    The Black Women Who Led the Fight for Decolonization in the French Empire

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   September 29, 2020
    Soviet Union

    On the Liberation Struggles of the
    Soviet Refuseniks

    By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy  September 29, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Racist History and Political Ends of Taking Children

    By New Books Network  September 29, 2020
    Class

    Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?

    By David R. Roediger  September 28, 2020
    Censorship

    Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

    By Amir Ahmadi Arian  September 28, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2020
    Myth

    Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere?

    By Vaughn Scribner  September 28, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Language Keepers: Compiling the First Ever Wukchumni Dictionary

    By Emergence Magazine  September 28, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Scenes From a Vigil: New York City Mourns the Loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    By Rachel Cobb  September 25, 2020
    War

    Pesticides, Incendiaries… How US Chemical Companies Endeared Themselves to the Public

    By Frank A. von Hippel  September 25, 2020
    American Presidents

    How the US-Soviet Relationship Shaped Eisenhower’s Presidency

    By Tim Weiner  September 25, 2020
    LGBTQ

    On Alternative Forms of Communal Care and Expanded Kinship Circles

    By The Care Collective  September 25, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., on the Urgency of James Baldwin’s Lessons

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 24, 2020
    Mythology

    Fornicating and Fighting: A Brief History of the Ancient Cult of Aphrodite

    By Bettany Hughes  September 24, 2020
    Keen On

    Why Americans Don’t Care About Their Presidents’ Sex Scandals

    By Keen On  September 24, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Past Is Never Dead: Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Michael Gorra on the ‘New South’ and Whether Faulkner Still Belongs There

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 24, 2020
    Sexuality

    On the “Misogyny Paradox” and the Crisis of Heterosexual Coupledom

    By Jane Ward  September 24, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Colin Dickey on Why Americans Are So Keen to Believe Conspiracies

    By The Maris Review  September 24, 2020
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