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History
The Women Who Shaped Vladimir Lenin
He Took Them As Seriously in Political Matters As He Did Men
By
Victor Sebestyen
| November 7, 2017
How Lord Byron Invented the Wild Horse
For Thousands of Years They Were Pests and Food, But a Poet Made Them Wild
By
Susanna Forrest
| November 3, 2017
Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization
"Worse Than a State Indifferent to Poetry was One Obsessed With It"
By
Martin Puchner
| November 2, 2017
10 Must-Read Histories of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
On the Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Ian Black Offers Some Definitive Histories
By
Ian Black
| November 2, 2017
Muhammad Ali, Author of "The Greatest Book of All Time"?
The Early 1970s were Hard Times for an American Icon
By
Jonathan Eig
| November 1, 2017
Literary Witches, From Angela Carter to Zora Neale Hurston
Celebrating the Radical Creativity of Five Beloved Writers
By
Taisia Kitaiskia and Katy Horan
| October 31, 2017
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Against the "Melting Pot" Metaphor
By
Mike Wallace
| October 30, 2017
The Secret Literary History of Some of Your Favorite Colors
By
Kassia St. Clair
| October 27, 2017
Uncovering the History of Slavery in Detroit
By
Tiya Miles
| October 27, 2017
The Enslaved Man Who Escaped George Washington—Twice
How 30,000 Enslaved People Gained Freedom by
Defecting to the British
By
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
| October 24, 2017
A Pilgrimage to the World's Most Famous Manuscript
Coming Face to Face with the Book of Kells
By
Christopher de Hamel
| October 24, 2017
When the French Invaded Hanoi, My Brothers Stayed Behind
They Knew War was Coming and Were Eager to Fight
By
Mai Elliott
| October 20, 2017
Jennifer Egan Makes Friends Across Seven Decades (and Countless Letters)
The Author of
Manhattan Beach
on the Intimacy of Historical Research
By
Jennifer Egan
| October 19, 2017
On the Literary Wheelings and Dealings of Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain
The World of Publishing, Unchanged for 150 Years
By
Ron Chernow
| October 17, 2017
Mark Twain, Cocaine Kingpin?
"I never was great in matters of detail"
By
Alan Pell Crawford
| October 16, 2017
How a History of Two Pet Chameleons Made a Case for the Animal Soul
On Madeleine de Scudéry’s History of “The Most Beautiful Animal in the World”
By
Peter Sahlins
| October 6, 2017
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"Mr Buruma s book while triggered by old photos and letters from Leo s time…"