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History
How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance
Matters of the Heart, from Arthurian Legend to Tristan and Isolde
By
Marilyn Yalom
| February 14, 2018
The Horse: Beloved Metaphor of Your Favorite 19th-Century Novelists
How One Animal Came to Symbolize Love and Broken Marriages
By
Ulrich Raulff
| February 12, 2018
How Wagner Tried to Revolutionize Art and End Capitalism
Simon Callow on a Great Composer Getting Political
By
Simon Callow
| February 7, 2018
Capturing the Artists, Hustlers, and Junkies of 1960s Pittsburgh
How the Blues Inspired Playwright August Wilson
By
Mark Whitaker
| February 1, 2018
On the Death of JFK and the Birth of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society"
When History Changes in an Instant
By
Joshua Zeitz
| February 1, 2018
During World War II, Literature Reigned Supreme
How Displacement and Migration Created an Unexpected Literary Boom
By
George Hutchinson
| January 26, 2018
Best Reviewed
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How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food
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Justin Spring
| January 18, 2018
On the Decision to Publish the Largest Leak in the History of American Power
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Jeff Himmelman
| January 10, 2018
What Happens When There's a Madman in the White House?
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Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis
| January 10, 2018
How to Dig a Hole—and Other Pieces of 1,000-Year-Old Wisdom
Alexander Laglands Looks Into the Old Way of Doing Things
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Alexander Laglands
| January 2, 2018
Storage Space for the Undead: Inside the Cryonics Business
Thomas Mira y Lopez Considers the Search for Eternal Life (and Frozen Heads)
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Thomas Mira y Lopez
| December 28, 2017
Charles Dickens Had Serious Beef with America and Its Bad Manners
And How it Led to His Writing
A Christmas Carol
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Samantha Silva
| December 21, 2017
How to Tell the Story of Bethlehem
Christmas Pudding in the Holy Land
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Nicholas Blincoe
| December 20, 2017
Our Tonya: Growing Up in Thrall to an American Antiheroine
Tracy O'Neill on the Symbolic Heft of Tonya Harding
By
Tracy O'Neill
| December 14, 2017
How Frances Marion and Mary Pickford Conquered Hollywood
Melanie Benjamin on Taking Inspiration from the Actor-Sreenwriter Team
By
Melanie Benjamin
| December 13, 2017
Rare Beat Generation Paraphernalia, From the Legendary Collection of Julio Mario Santo Domingo
Neal Cassady's Mugshot, Allen Ginsberg's Stars and Stripes Hat, and More
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Peter Watts
| December 8, 2017
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Of Crime and Comedy: 6 Humorous Mystery Novels
July 29, 2026
by
Gloria Chao
What Crime Novels Would the Greatest Women Pilots of All Time Enjoy Reading?
July 29, 2026
by
Mary Wine and Cindy Dees
Lauren Nossett on the Rise of Novels Centering Female Musicians and Rule-Breakers
July 29, 2026
by
Lauren Nossett