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The Wrong Kind of Redemption: A Civil War That Never Ended

The Wrong Kind of Redemption: A Civil War That Never Ended

Philip Dray on Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s New Book and the “Glorious Failure” of Reconstruction

By Philip Dray | April 8, 2019

Angela Davis on Protest, 1968, and Her Old Teacher, Herbert Marcuse

Angela Davis on Protest, 1968, and Her Old Teacher, Herbert Marcuse

Read from Marcuse's Graphic Biography by Nick Thorkelson, edited by Paul Buhle and Andrew T. Lamas

By Literary Hub | April 3, 2019

Édouard Louis: On the Youth My <br>Father Never Really Had

Édouard Louis: On the Youth My
Father Never Really Had

From Who Killed My Father

By Edouard Louis | April 2, 2019

On the Putin System: How a Dictator Maintains His Power

On the Putin System: How a Dictator Maintains His Power

Grigory Yavlinsky Considers Power and Corruption in Contemporary Russia

By Grigory Yavlinsky | April 2, 2019

Religious Cult, Force for Civil Rights, or Both?

Religious Cult, Force for Civil Rights, or Both?

On Father and Mother Divine, and the Peace Mission Movement

By Adam Morris | March 28, 2019

A Brief History of That Most Noble Tuber, the Potato

A Brief History of That Most Noble Tuber, the Potato

Rebecca Earle Brings a Little Humanity to a Humble Vegetable

By Rebecca Earle | March 28, 2019

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Aldous Huxley Foresaw America's Pill-Popping Addiction with Eerie Accuracy

By Robert Bennett | March 21, 2019

How Japan Almost Lost a National Symbol to Extinction

By Naoko Abe | March 19, 2019

Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

By Roy Christopher | March 18, 2019

Meet the Man Brought to Trial for Murdering the English Language

Meet the Man Brought to Trial for Murdering the English Language

(In the Press, by a Jury of His Enemies)

By Emily Temple | March 18, 2019

Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston

Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston

Writing Novels, Reporting on Murders, Curating Folk Concerts... She Could Do It All

By Literary Hub | March 15, 2019

It Was All Greek to Her: With the Sappho-Obsessed in 1900s Paris

It Was All Greek to Her: With the Sappho-Obsessed in 1900s Paris

Eva Palmer Sikelianos, Pre-Modern Modernist

By Artemis Leontis | March 15, 2019

Tracing the Incredible Journey of Polynesians Around the Globe

Tracing the Incredible Journey of Polynesians Around the Globe

"There is no written record of these events..."

By Christina Thompson | March 14, 2019

Honoré de Balzac's Legendary Love Affair With His Anonymous Critic

Honoré de Balzac's Legendary Love Affair With His Anonymous Critic

Or: How to Marry a Famous Writer

By Emily Temple | March 14, 2019

The History of Humanity, As Revealed By Its Walls

The History of Humanity, As Revealed By Its Walls

On the Boundaries That Define Our Lives

By Paul Crenshaw | March 14, 2019

On the Hidden History of Queer Women in Baseball

On the Hidden History of Queer Women in Baseball

Britni de la Cretaz on the Research Behind Breaking the Story

By Britni de la Cretaz | March 13, 2019

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