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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

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

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

We're Now Living in the Brave New World

By Robert Bennett | March 21, 2019

How Japan Almost Lost a National Symbol to Extinction

How Japan Almost Lost a National Symbol to Extinction

On the Cherry Blossom Tree and the English Gardener Who Saved It

By Naoko Abe | March 19, 2019

Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

Roy Christopher on the Intersection of Books and Beats

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Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston

Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston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

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

By Artemis Leontis | March 15, 2019

Tracing the Incredible Journey of Polynesians Around the Globe

By Christina Thompson | March 14, 2019

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

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

Brooklyn's Earliest, Secret Enclaves of Queer Life

Brooklyn's Earliest, Secret Enclaves of Queer Life

From Whitman to the Free Black Community of Weeksville

By Hugh Ryan | March 13, 2019

The Time I Met New York's Patron Saint of Typewriters

The Time I Met New York's Patron Saint of Typewriters

Stanley Adelman, Savior to Philip Roth, David Mamet and More

By Thaisa Frank | March 12, 2019

How the United States Became a Part of Latin America

How the United States Became a Part of Latin America

On Race, Borders and Belonging

By Carrie Gibson | March 8, 2019

From Shakespeare to Tolkien, Treasures from the NYC Antiquarian Book Fair

From Shakespeare to Tolkien, Treasures from the NYC Antiquarian Book Fair

Sarah Funke Butler Surveys Some Cool Old Stuff

By Sarah Funke Butler | March 8, 2019

Virginia Woolf's Depression Shouldn't Define Her

Virginia Woolf's Depression Shouldn't Define Her

How We Often Overlook the Writer's Otherwise Happy Life

By Maggie Gee | March 6, 2019

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