The First Mughal Emperor's Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

The First Mughal Emperor's Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

William Dalrymple on the 16th-Century Memoir, Babur Nama

By William Dalrymple | November 5, 2020

Secret Intelligence and Betrayal Amid the French Resistance

Secret Intelligence and Betrayal Amid the French Resistance

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | November 5, 2020

I Knew How to Play Bach, But That Didn't Mean I Was Good

I Knew How to Play Bach, But That Didn't Mean I Was Good

Dan Moller on the Technical Challenges of Bachian Trills

By Dan Moller | November 4, 2020

On the Covert Role of Knitting During the French Revolution and World War II

On the Covert Role of Knitting During the French Revolution and World War II

Loretta Napoleoni Traces the History of Women Who Stitched Their Way To Freedom

By Loretta Napoleoni | November 4, 2020

Why Byzantium? Studying the Art of the Middle Ages as a Queer Latinx

Why Byzantium? Studying the Art of the Middle Ages as a Queer Latinx

Roland Betancourt on the Origins of His Latest Book

By Roland Betancourt | November 4, 2020

How Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery Undermined White Supremacy

How Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery Undermined White Supremacy

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | November 4, 2020

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Growing Up in the Soviet Union's Hero City

By Valzhyna Mort | November 3, 2020

On the Connection Between Whaling and Imperialism in the Bering Strait

By Time to Eat the Dogs | November 3, 2020

Megan Rosenbloom on the Macabre History of Books Bound in Human Skin

By Well-Versed | November 3, 2020

How Conventional Conflicts Become Nuclear Wars

How Conventional Conflicts Become Nuclear Wars

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | November 3, 2020

White Supremacy Has Always Been More Powerful Than Its Loudest Proponents

White Supremacy Has Always Been More Powerful Than Its Loudest Proponents

Issac Bailey, Kathleen Belew, and Connor Towne O'Neill on the White Power Resurgence

By Literary Hub | November 2, 2020

Masha Gessen on the Role of Memory After State-Sponsored Atrocity

Masha Gessen on the Role of Memory After State-Sponsored Atrocity

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By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann | November 2, 2020

Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

Examining the Intellectual Life of Alexander Herzen

By Pankaj Mishra | November 2, 2020

Conservatism is Always Evolving

Conservatism is Always Evolving

Edmund Fawcett on the Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast

By New Books Network | November 2, 2020

A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

Roy A. Meals, Bone Expert, Has the Skinny

By Roy A. Meals, MD | October 30, 2020

When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

By Corinne Segal | October 29, 2020

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