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Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?

Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?

Clayton Wickham on the Imagined Histories of Danielle Dutton and Benjamin Labatut

By Clayton Wickham | May 31, 2022

What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

Michael Blanding on the (Extremely Compelling) Sir Thomas North Theory

By Michael Blanding | May 31, 2022

Why the “Bad Gays” of History Deserve More Attention

Why the “Bad Gays” of History Deserve More Attention

And What they Can Teach Us About Liberation

By Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller | May 31, 2022

On Hitler’s Boy Soldiers: Can Germans Ever Forget the Second World War?

On Hitler’s Boy Soldiers: Can Germans Ever Forget the Second World War?

Helene Munson in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 31, 2022

When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever

When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever

“And so started a summer of Brits, young and old, doing everything they could to be just like Marilyn.”

By Michelle Morgan | May 27, 2022

Caroline Elkins on the Gruesome Rule of the British Empire

Caroline Elkins on the Gruesome Rule of the British Empire

This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon

By Open Source | May 27, 2022

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On the Radical, Popular Creator of the First Female Superhero

On the Radical, Popular Creator of the First Female Superhero

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Morgan Talty on Indigenous Literature, Penobscot Culture, and the Villain of Colonialism

Morgan Talty on Indigenous Literature, Penobscot Culture, and the Villain of Colonialism

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

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Remembering (And Mourning) The Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington D.C.

Remembering (And Mourning) The Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington D.C.

George Stevens, Jr. in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 25, 2022

How Leonardo Da Vinci Became the Ultimate Renaissance Man

How Leonardo Da Vinci Became the Ultimate Renaissance Man

Eden Collinsworth on the Intellectual and Artistic Development of One of History’s Greatest Geniuses

By Eden Collinsworth | May 24, 2022

Photographing Communism(s) and What Life Really Looked Like in Cold War Eastern Europe

Photographing Communism(s) and What Life Really Looked Like in Cold War Eastern Europe

Arthur Grace in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 24, 2022

A Few Notes on the Past (and Possible Future) of Public Mourning

A Few Notes on the Past (and Possible Future) of Public Mourning

A.J. Bermudez on Technology, Community, and Grief

By A. J. Bermudez | May 23, 2022

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