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A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity
"Shade Comes From Reading. Reading Came First." –Dorian Corey
By
Jeanna Kadlec
| May 13, 2019
How the Bubonic Plague
Almost
Came to America
A Pompous Doctor, a Racist Bureaucracy, and More!
By
David K. Randall
| May 9, 2019
We Have Always Loved
Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents
Douglas Brinkley Offers a Brief History of Political Listicles
By
Douglas Brinkley
| May 8, 2019
On the Unsung Lives
of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad
When Two Railroads—and the Migrant Workers Who Built Them—Met
By
Gordon H. Chang
| May 8, 2019
On Founding One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections
Jacques Schiffrin and the Creation of Pléiade Editions
By
Amos Reichman
| May 7, 2019
Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with
the British Monarchy?)
From Shakespeare to Austen, the Hagiographic to the Contemptuous
By
Robert Morrison
| May 6, 2019
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Revolutionary Travel Writer
Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings
By
Jürgen Goldstein
| May 6, 2019
Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy
By
Jon Meacham
| May 6, 2019
Through Films for Black Audiences, Ousmane Sembene Spoke to All
By
Mateo Askaripour
| May 2, 2019
Edmund White on Stonewall, the 'Decisive Uprising' of Gay Liberation
At What Point Does Resistance Become the Only Choice?
By
Edmund White
| April 30, 2019
The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer's Life
Two Tyrants, Two Poets, and a Long Pilgrimage to Milan
By
Marion Turner
| April 29, 2019
Like Twitter But Cold: On the Literary Culture of Arctic Expeditions
Can You Can Imagine Taking a Printing Press to the North Pole?
By
Hester Blum
| April 26, 2019
The View from the Middle of Everything
Dispatches From Flatville, Illinois
By
Kristin L. Hoganson
| April 25, 2019
The 'Dark Ages' Weren't As Dark
As We Thought
History Flickers In and Out of Darkness, No Matter the Era
By
Simon Winder
| April 24, 2019
How John Hersey Revealed the Horrors of the Atomic Bomb to the US
Remembering
Hiroshima
, the Story That Changed Everything
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Jeremy Treglown
| April 23, 2019
Was Shakespeare Agnostic About
the Afterlife?
Happy Death Day, Shakespeare!
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John S. Garrison
| April 23, 2019
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