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Quarantine Diversion #3,477: Virtually spin these historical globes from the British Library.

Quarantine Diversion #3,477: Virtually spin these historical globes from the British Library.

By Jonny Diamond | April 13, 2020

How Plants Helped Colette Satisfy an Insatiable Desire

How Plants Helped Colette Satisfy an Insatiable Desire

Damon Young on Colette's Life in the Garden

By Damon Young | April 13, 2020

Betsey Johnson on the Eve of a Cotton Lycra Revolution

Betsey Johnson on the Eve of a Cotton Lycra Revolution

When The Fashion Icon Had to Take Control of Her Career

By Betsey Johnson and Mark Vitulano | April 10, 2020

Why Women Kill

Why Women Kill

On Gendered Violence and Our Inability to Understand Female Rage

By Asale Angel-Ajani & Nimmi Gowrinathan | April 10, 2020

How Did England Get Its Bizarro Street Names?

How Did England Get Its Bizarro Street Names?

For Your Consideration: "Gropecunt Lane"

By Deirdre Mask | April 9, 2020

Writing From Within the Rosenberg Family Legacy

Writing From Within the Rosenberg Family Legacy

Ellen Meeropol on the Novel That Took Two Decades to Write

By Ellen Meeropol | April 9, 2020

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Moby-Dick's Powerful Message for the Atomic Age

By Gilbert Wilson | April 8, 2020

In a Quiet London Enclave, Five Iconic Women Writers Forged a Home

By Francesca Wade | April 8, 2020

On Early Judaism and Its Conception of the Afterlife

By Bart Ehrman | April 8, 2020

A newly discovered portrait of Mary Pearson reminds us that the Austens were total jerks about her.

A newly discovered portrait of Mary Pearson reminds us that the Austens were total jerks about her.

By Corinne Segal | April 7, 2020

Ta-Nehisi Coates: On the Privilege of Knowing David Carr

Ta-Nehisi Coates: On the Privilege of Knowing David Carr

"This man was rare. I knew it."

By Ta-Nehisi Coates | April 7, 2020

An Exhibition on Gabriel García Márquez's Long Road to Becoming a Writer

An Exhibition on Gabriel García Márquez's Long Road to Becoming a Writer

Lance Richardson on The Making of a Global Writer

By Lance Richardson | April 6, 2020

Meet Nancy Wake, the Most Incredible Woman You’ve Never Heard Of

Meet Nancy Wake, the Most Incredible Woman You’ve Never Heard Of

Erased from History Even as She Wrote It

By Ariel Lawhon | April 6, 2020

Helen Hamilton Gardener's Fight Against Sexist Science

Helen Hamilton Gardener's Fight Against Sexist Science

Darwinism, Misogyny, and Education in the 19th Century

By Kimberly A. Hamlin | April 6, 2020

Once Upon a Time, the NRA Stood Up to the Gun Industry

Once Upon a Time, the NRA Stood Up to the Gun Industry

Frank Smyth on a Saner Time for American Debate Over Gun Registration

By Frank Smyth | April 3, 2020

The Time Giuseppe Verdi Battled *Actual* Censorship

The Time Giuseppe Verdi Battled Actual Censorship

On Italian Radicals Who Fought For Freedom

By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi | April 3, 2020

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