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Liberation at 30,000 Feet: On the Freedom of Early Airline Stewardesses

Liberation at 30,000 Feet: On the Freedom of Early Airline Stewardesses

Sarah Menkedick Examines the False Choice Between Femininity and Power

By Sarah Menkedick | March 12, 2021

Unearthing the Stories of Those Who Escaped Auschwitz

Unearthing the Stories of Those Who Escaped Auschwitz

Victoria Shorr Finds the Heavy Weight of History in Her Own Family

By Victoria Shorr | March 12, 2021

The Women Who Pioneered Bicycling as a Feminist Sport

The Women Who Pioneered Bicycling as a Feminist Sport

Maxine Friedman on Maria E. Ward, the Author of Bicycling for Ladies

By Maxine Friedman | March 12, 2021

Samantha Rose Hill Reconsiders Hannah Arendt's Thoughts on Hope, a Year into COVID-19

Samantha Rose Hill Reconsiders Hannah Arendt's Thoughts on Hope, a Year into COVID-19

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on
The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | March 12, 2021

How Meryl Streep Helped Transform Germany in the 1970s

How Meryl Streep Helped Transform Germany in the 1970s

John Kampfner in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 12, 2021

Take a look at Black Work Broadway, the project cataloguing every Broadway performance written by Black artists.

Take a look at Black Work Broadway, the project cataloguing every Broadway performance written by Black artists.

By Walker Caplan | March 11, 2021

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A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

By Harmony Holiday | March 11, 2021

WTF, Texas? Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 11, 2021

Why We Prefer Our War Stories Simple

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | March 11, 2021

Apparently John Steinbeck once wrote a horror story about a boy being chewed by his own gum.

Apparently John Steinbeck once wrote a horror story about a boy being chewed by his own gum.

By Walker Caplan | March 10, 2021

Growing Up in the Shadow of Birmingham’s Racist Violence

Growing Up in the Shadow of Birmingham’s Racist Violence

John Archibald on Living with the Domestic Terror of 1960s “Bombingham”

By John Archibald | March 10, 2021

How Virginia Woolf’s Time-Traveling Androgynous Hero Became Shorthand for Fashion’s Genderless Future

How Virginia Woolf’s Time-Traveling Androgynous Hero Became Shorthand for Fashion’s Genderless Future

Sophie Wilson on the Liberation Looks Inspired by Orlando

By Sophie Wilson | March 9, 2021

When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious

When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious

Donna Florio Remembers Just Another Day on Manhattan's Bank Street

By Donna Florio | March 9, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Island on Fire</em> by Tom Zoellner

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Island on Fire by Tom Zoellner

Carlin Romano on One of the Finalists for Nonfiction

By Carlin Romano | March 9, 2021

Read the newly announced inscription for the Barack Obama Presidential Library.

Read the newly announced inscription for the Barack Obama Presidential Library.

By Walker Caplan | March 8, 2021

Writing at the Edges of Holocaust Kitsch

Writing at the Edges of Holocaust Kitsch

Leora Fridman on Takis Würger’s Controversial Novel, Stella

By Leora Fridman | March 8, 2021

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