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Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson once beat a murder charge by translating some Latin.

Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson once beat a murder charge by translating some Latin.

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 21, 2020

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of<br> Amelia Earhart

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
Amelia Earhart

A Missing Pilot and Her Poems

By Traci Brimhall | February 21, 2020

Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

Don't Let Anyone Tell You Revolutionary History is Boring

By Serena Zabin | February 20, 2020

Football is Everything (Which is to<br> Say Soccer)

Football is Everything (Which is to
Say Soccer)

David Goldblatt on the Biggest Cultural Phenomenon the World Has Ever Known

By David Goldblatt | February 19, 2020

How the Well-Educated and Downwardly Mobile Found Socialism

How the Well-Educated and Downwardly Mobile Found Socialism

At Least, According to Charlotte Alter, a Gentle Version of It

By Charlotte Alter | February 19, 2020

The Romanticized Belle Epoque in Paris Was an Age of Political Crisis

The Romanticized Belle Epoque in Paris Was an Age of Political Crisis

Julian Barnes on Fake News, Religious Tension, and "Gangster Imperialism" Abounded

By Julian Barnes | February 18, 2020

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Cataloguing Carson McCullers' Clothes: Long Coats, Vests, and Gender Fluidity

By Jenn Shapland | February 18, 2020

The Book That Began as an Acid-Fueled Speech at Woodstock

By Jack Hoffman and Daniel Simon | February 18, 2020

You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine's Day

By Emily Temple | February 14, 2020

What Can the Artist Do in Dark Times?

What Can the Artist Do in Dark Times?

Paul Scraton on the Life and Legacy of Käthe Kollwitz

By Paul Scraton | February 14, 2020

How Obama’s Reading Shaped His Writing

How Obama’s Reading Shaped His Writing

"Obama-the-writer came before Obama-the-candidate."

By Craig Fehrman | February 13, 2020

Corruption, Inc.: Andrea Bernstein on the Trumps, the Kushners, and the Age of the Oligarchs

Corruption, Inc.: Andrea Bernstein on the Trumps, the Kushners, and the Age of the Oligarchs

The Author of American Oligarchs in Conversation with Dylan Foley

By Dylan Foley | February 13, 2020

Escaping Into Books About the Middle Ages is My Self-Therapy

Escaping Into Books About the Middle Ages is My Self-Therapy

Amber Sparks on How the Black Death Can Give
You a Little Perspective

By Amber Sparks | February 12, 2020

Memory vs. History: On the Neverending Struggle to See Clearly Into the Past

Memory vs. History: On the Neverending Struggle to See Clearly Into the Past

Sarisha Kurup Tries to Map the Personal Over the Public

By Sarisha Kurup | February 12, 2020

Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition

Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition

Clare Beams on Women's Bodies and the Power of Names

By Clare Beams | February 11, 2020

A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

Dina Nayeri on Javad Djavaher's My Part of Her

By Dina Nayeri | February 11, 2020

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