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Isabella Hammad’s (Incomplete) Essential List of Books About Palestine

Isabella Hammad’s (Incomplete) Essential List of Books About Palestine

Featuring Jean Genet, Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, and More

By Isabella Hammad | September 24, 2024

How the Work of Thomas Dixon Shaped White America’s Racist Fantasies

How the Work of Thomas Dixon Shaped White America’s Racist Fantasies

Joel Edward Goza on the Literary and Cinematic Legacy of White Supremacy in the United States

By Joel Edward Goza | September 23, 2024

Courtesan, Diplomat, Kingmaker: The Many Faces of Pamela Harriman

Courtesan, Diplomat, Kingmaker: The Many Faces of Pamela Harriman

Sonia Purnell on the Colorful Life and Enduring Legacy of This Powerful Yet Misunderstood Woman

By Sonia Purnell | September 20, 2024

Dreaming a Way Into the Past: On Unearthing Family Secrets in Taipei

Dreaming a Way Into the Past: On Unearthing Family Secrets in Taipei

Kim Liao Explores Her Grandfather's History as a Freedom Fighter and Dissident in Taiwan

By Kim Liao | September 20, 2024

How Brooklyn’s Earliest Black Residents Found Empowerment and Solidarity in Their Diverse Community

How Brooklyn’s Earliest Black Residents Found Empowerment and Solidarity in Their Diverse Community

Prithi Kanakamedala Explores the Little Known History of 19th-Century New York City

By Prithi Kanakamedala | September 18, 2024

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

David Browne on Max Gordon, Prohibition, and the Transformative Creation of the Village Vanguard

By David Browne | September 18, 2024

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Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America By Surprise

By Timothy Snyder | September 17, 2024

A Quiet Giant: How Indonesia Paved the Way for Liberation Struggles Worldwide

By David Van Reybrouck | September 17, 2024

Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

By Richard Flanagan | September 16, 2024

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

Ben Ehrenreich on the Riots of Northern England, Then and Now

By Ben Ehrenreich | September 13, 2024

The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

From Dylan C. Penningroth Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Before the Movement”

By Dylan C. Penningroth | September 13, 2024

More Guns, More Money: How America Turned Weapons Into a Consumer Commodity

More Guns, More Money: How America Turned Weapons Into a Consumer Commodity

From Andrew C. McKevitt's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Gun Country”

By Andrew C. McKevitt | September 12, 2024

Ten Books That Reveal Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It Is

Ten Books That Reveal Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It Is

Elizabeth Shick Recommends Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Karen Connelly, Charmaine Craig and More

By Elizabeth Shick | September 12, 2024

Indigenous Agency: How Native Americans Put Limits on European Colonial Domination

Indigenous Agency: How Native Americans Put Limits on European Colonial Domination

From Kathleen DuVal's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Native Nations”

By Kathleen DuVal | September 11, 2024

How a Small Town Murder in Oklahoma Sparked a Supreme Court Battle Over Tribal Sovereignty

How a Small Town Murder in Oklahoma Sparked a Supreme Court Battle Over Tribal Sovereignty

Rebecca Nagle on the Independence of the Muscogee Nation

By Rebecca Nagle | September 10, 2024

Crip-Walking at the Commencement: Jerald Walker on the Shifting Significance of Black Gestures

Crip-Walking at the Commencement: Jerald Walker on the Shifting Significance of Black Gestures

The Author of “Magically Black and Other Essays” Reflects on Serena Williams, Gang Signs, and “Scaring the White Folks”

By Jerald Walker | September 10, 2024

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