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The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

Nathan Rabb on What He Learned From His Father's Bookshelf

By Nathan Rabb | March 11, 2020

How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

Will Storr on the Neuroscience Behind the World We See

By Will Storr | March 11, 2020

On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement

On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement

Gerald Posner on Cicely Saunders, the UK Nurse-Turned-Physician

By Gerald Posner | March 11, 2020

How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon 'Free Lunch.'

How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon 'Free Lunch.'

Ben Katchor's Brief History of the Dairy Restaurant

By Ben Katchor | March 10, 2020

Why Does This Portuguese City Glorify the Author Who<br> Hated It?

Why Does This Portuguese City Glorify the Author Who
Hated It?

José Maria de Eça de Queirós Detested Life in Leiria

By Carolina Marques de Mesquita | March 9, 2020

Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

David Nott on Traveling to Aleppo to Save Lives

By David Nott | March 6, 2020

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The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

By Robin D.G. Kelley | March 6, 2020

What's the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

By David Schneider | March 5, 2020

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

By Adam Hochschild | March 5, 2020

Charles Dickens really, really hated his fanboy Hans Christian Andersen.

Charles Dickens really, really hated his fanboy Hans Christian Andersen.

By Olivia Rutigliano | March 4, 2020

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

Tracking Adversaries, Hiding Evidence, and Other No
Good Dirty Deeds

By Alana Mohamed | March 4, 2020

Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

Dylan Byron on the Self-Discovery of Early Literary Love

By Dylan Byron | March 3, 2020

Tim Bakken on the Self-Deluded Hubris at the Heart of the American Military

Tim Bakken on the Self-Deluded Hubris at the Heart of the American Military

A Tale as Old as West Point

By Tim Bakken | March 2, 2020

When Robert Moses Wiped Out New York's 'Little Syria'

When Robert Moses Wiped Out New York's 'Little Syria'

What Happened to the Former Main Street of Syrian America

By Matt Kapp | February 28, 2020

The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education

The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education

Mikki Kendall on Anti-Blackness, Ancestors, and the Price of Growing Up Smart

By Mikki Kendall | February 27, 2020

When America's Most Famous Monthly Took on Its Most Famous Tycoon

When America's Most Famous Monthly Took on Its Most Famous Tycoon

Journalist Ida Tarbell Went Up Against Rockefeller Himself

By Stephanie Gorton | February 27, 2020

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