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In Early Modern Europe, Reading and Writing Meant Getting Your Hands Dirty

In Early Modern Europe, Reading and Writing Meant Getting Your Hands Dirty

Anthony Grafton: When Writing Could Be Back-Breaking Work

By Anthony Grafton | July 6, 2020

Dear Black America: <br> A Letter From Tracy K. Smith

Dear Black America:
A Letter From Tracy K. Smith

"We revel in the depth and the flair and the belief and the secrecy of Blackness."

By Tracy K. Smith | July 2, 2020

The <em>New Yorker</em> Article Heard Round the World

The New Yorker Article Heard Round the World

Revisiting John Hersey's Groundbreaking "Hiroshima"

By Greg Mitchell | July 2, 2020

Letter From Newark: I Hated That I Had to See Your Face Through Plexiglass

Letter From Newark: I Hated That I Had to See Your Face Through Plexiglass

Nyle Fort Corresponds with His Nephew

By Nyle Fort | July 1, 2020

Capturing the Soul of Fire Island: Attitude Without Judgment

Capturing the Soul of Fire Island: Attitude Without Judgment

Patrick Ryan on the Photography of koitz

By Patrick Ryan | July 1, 2020

In Search of the Open-Armed America of 1975

In Search of the Open-Armed America of 1975

Phuc Tran on a Long-Gone Approach to Welcoming Refugees

By Phuc Tran | July 1, 2020

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Black Struggle Will Not Bring Interracial Catharsis—And It Shouldn't

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Befriending My Neighbor, Nephew of Nazis

By Jaswinder Bolina | June 30, 2020

Two Pandemics, 60 Years Apart, and the Lessons Stay the Same

By Petru Popescu | June 30, 2020

How Did Artists Survive the First Great Depression?

How Did Artists Survive the First Great Depression?

David A. Taylor on Art as Social Intervention

By David A. Taylor | June 29, 2020

Arrested For Wearing a Bathing Suit: Life as an Early Female Swimmer

Arrested For Wearing a Bathing Suit: Life as an Early Female Swimmer

Howard Means on Annette Kellerman

By Howard Means | June 29, 2020

Remembering Bo Huston, Who Bore Witness to the Peak of the AIDS Crisis

Remembering Bo Huston, Who Bore Witness to the Peak of the AIDS Crisis

"I’d be thrilled to be known in fifty years’ time as a minor gay writer from the 1990s."

By John McIntyre | June 26, 2020

Jill La Pointe on the Art—and Preservation—of Lushootseed Storytelling

Jill La Pointe on the Art—and Preservation—of Lushootseed Storytelling

Turning to New Technology to Revitalize Old Languages

By Jill La Pointe | June 26, 2020

America Wasn't a Nation At Its Founding, It Was a Means<br> to an End

America Wasn't a Nation At Its Founding, It Was a Means
to an End

And Why Didn't New Englanders Become “the Goths and
Vandals of America”?

By Colin Woodard | June 24, 2020

Is There a Better Way for the Left to Talk About American Christianity?

Is There a Better Way for the Left to Talk About American Christianity?

Marie Mutsuki Mockett on the Intersection of Justice and Faith

By Marie Mutsuki Mockett | June 24, 2020

Inside the Creation of a Girl Scout Troop Unlike Any Other

Inside the Creation of a Girl Scout Troop Unlike Any Other

Meet the Young Women Who Made it Happen

By Nikita Stewart | June 24, 2020

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