Monstrosity Plucked From Garbage Can: On Mae West’s early career as a controversial playwright.

Monstrosity Plucked From Garbage Can: On Mae West’s early career as a controversial playwright.

By Walker Caplan | April 20, 2021

How a Queer Couple Masterminded a Nazi Resistance Campaign

How a Queer Couple Masterminded a Nazi Resistance Campaign

The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

By Jeffrey H. Jackson | April 20, 2021

Rediscovering the Scientist-Priest Who Radically Changed Our View of the Universe

Rediscovering the Scientist-Priest Who Radically Changed Our View of the Universe

Guido Tonelli on the Intuition of Georges Lemaître

By Guido Tonelli | April 19, 2021

Secrets and Lies in the Early Days of the Klondike Gold Rush

Secrets and Lies in the Early Days of the Klondike Gold Rush

Brian Castner on Lying George Carmack and the
Discovery of a Lifetime

By Brian Castner | April 19, 2021

Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

Kate Tsurkan Recommends Andriy Lyubka, Olesya Yaremchuk,
and More

By Kate Tsurkan | April 19, 2021

On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

From Charles Darwin to Toni Morrison, Jeremy DeSilva Looks at
Our Need to Move

By Jeremy DeSilva | April 19, 2021

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Mustafa Akyol on the Islamic Enlightenment

By Keen On | April 19, 2021

Got £2.75 million to spare? Now you can buy Agatha Christie’s house.

By Walker Caplan | April 16, 2021

Watch Spalding Gray perform Our Town’s legendary opening monologue.

By Walker Caplan | April 16, 2021

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on the Power of Ancestral Connections

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs | April 16, 2021

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

Kim Todd Remembers the Fearless Women Who Changed the Trajectory of Memoir and Reporting

By Kim Todd | April 16, 2021

The Challenge of Editing a <br>Beat Legend

The Challenge of Editing a
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Garrett Caples on Working with Michael McClure

By Garrett Caples | April 16, 2021

Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

Mark Synnott on George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and a Very Flimsy Rope

By Mark Synnott | April 16, 2021

Waste Not: A Brief History of the Urban Sewer System

Waste Not: A Brief History of the Urban Sewer System

Chelsea Wald on How We Get Rid of What We Don’t Want

By Chelsea Wald | April 15, 2021

How Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg Found Their Voices at NPR

How Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg Found Their Voices at NPR

Lisa Napoli on Four Radical Women Who Changed
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By Lisa Napoli | April 15, 2021

The Lesser-Known Protest that Kicked Off Gay Liberation in Los Angeles

The Lesser-Known Protest that Kicked Off Gay Liberation in Los Angeles

Jon Wiener and Mike Davis on Gay Activism Before Stonewall

By Jon Wiener and Mike Davis | April 15, 2021

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