• History

    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

    By John M. Bowers  January 27, 2020
    WWII

    Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

    By Patrick Modiano  January 27, 2020
    Income Inequality

    Americans Are Right To Think the Economy Is Rigged

    By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn  January 24, 2020
    Media

    ‘Is the Newspaper Office the Place
    for a Girl?’

    By Julie Des Jardins  January 24, 2020
    Math

    When a Man Took a Joke in a Pepsi Ad Seriously,
    Chaos Ensued

    By Matt Parker  January 23, 2020
    The History of Reading

    Rediscovering the Lost Power
    of Reading Aloud

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon  January 22, 2020
    Peace

    Striving for a Life of Normality in the Occupied West Bank

    By Ilana Hammerman  January 22, 2020
    Poetry

    Wordsworth: Caught in the Act of Making Poetry!

    By Adam Nicolson  January 21, 2020
    Minimalism

    Kyle Chayka on the Godfather of Minimalism and His Case for Imperfection

    By Kyle Chayka  January 21, 2020
    Literary History

    The Emotional Aftershocks of Alice Adams’ Most Celebrated Work

    By Carol Sklenicka  January 21, 2020
    Mental health

    The Legal Fight That Ended the Unjust Confinement of Mental Health Patients

    By Ayelet Waldman  January 21, 2020
    Post-Soviet Travel

    Post-Soviet Travel on the Turkmen-­Kazakh Border

    By Erika Fatland  January 21, 2020
    Sports

    The War on Poverty Changed a Young George Foreman’s Life

    By Andrew R.M. Smith  January 17, 2020
    European History

    The Question Haunting the Hungarian People: “What Would You Have Done?”

    By Rory MacLean  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Christopher Brown on Serving on the Inspiration Behind Rule of Capture

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Katherine Kayne on the Strong Women of Hawaii’s Painful History

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    K Chess: Imagining a Radically Different 20th Century That Might Have Been

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    In Translation

    The Art of War is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It

    By Michael Nylan  January 16, 2020
    American History

    On John Brown and the Rise of the Radical Republican Abolitionists

    By LeeAnna Keith  January 16, 2020
    American Identity

    John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison’s Two Inviolable Identities

    By John F. Callahan  January 16, 2020
    Economics

    On the Birth of the Economist Class and the Untaming of Corporations

    By Nicholas Shaxson  January 15, 2020
    Beauty

    Before Beauty Vlogging, There Were Renaissance
    ‘Books of Secrets’

    By Meghan Racklin  January 15, 2020
    Working Class Literature

    Finding the Literature I Needed Everywhere But University

    By Jessica Andrews  January 15, 2020
    American History

    Steve Inskeep: The Rise and Fall of American Adventurer and Politician John Frémont

    By Literary Hub  January 14, 2020
    American Classics

    How Edith Wharton’s Novel of New York High Society Speaks to Class Divisions Today

    By Jennifer Egan  January 14, 2020
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