• History

    The History of Literature

    The Art of War: How Can a Book Written Two and a Half Millennia Ago Remain Timeless?

    By History of Literature  March 27, 2023
    Democracy

    Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy

    By Arundhati Roy  March 24, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 23, 2023
    Geology

    From Volcanoes To Bathtubs: On the Many Uses and Forms of Pumice

    By Hettie Judah  March 23, 2023
    Keen On

    Ren DeStefano on Female Serial Killers and Why She Suspects Everyone Might Have a Murder in Them

    By Keen On  March 23, 2023
    Keen On

    John Parker Liberates African History From the Colonial Narrative of Oppression, Suffering, and Powerlessness

    By Keen On  March 22, 2023
    Representation

    You Cannot Protect Your Children From Moana: How Not to Fight Fairy Tales

    By Julia Langbein  March 21, 2023
    Keen On

    Martin Puchner on How Culture is Simultaneously Owned by Nobody and By All of Us

    By Keen On  March 21, 2023
    Philosophy

    How To Think Like a Woman: A Brief Accounting of Unacknowledged Philosophical Genius

    By Regan Penaluna  March 20, 2023
    Inequality

    Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance

    By Alissa Quart  March 20, 2023
    The History of Literature

    A Deep-Dive on Catullus, the Roman Poet of Fierce Desire and Hatred

    By History of Literature  March 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Elisabeth B. Armstrong on the Most Consequential Anti-Colonial Feminist Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Keen On  March 20, 2023
    Irish Literature

    The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost

    By Alexander Poots  March 17, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Wizardry of Boz: A Brief History of Charles Dickens on Screen

    By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst  March 17, 2023
    Trauma

    What Survivors of Trauma Demand From Their Abusers—and the Public At Large

    By Judith L. Herman  March 17, 2023
    Forensics

    In Argentina, How the Bones of the Dead Communicate With the Living

    By Alexa Hagerty  March 16, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    20 Years After the Invasion: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Iraqi Perspectives on the War and What Western Media Missed

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 16, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Jennifer Rosner on Crafting Evocative Historical Fiction That Honors the Past

    By Natalie Jenner and Jennifer Rosner  March 16, 2023
    Keen On

    Christopher Hobson on How Everything Everywhere—the US, the UK, Iraq, South Africa—is Broken

    By Keen On  March 16, 2023
    Keen On

    Kristen Loesch on Fictionalizing and Feminizing the History of 20th-Century Russia

    By Keen On  March 16, 2023
    Keen On

    Patti McCracken on the Early 20th-century Hungarian Women Who Poisoned 160 Men

    By Keen On  March 15, 2023
    The Middle East

    A Legacy of Brutality and Corruption: Life in the New Iraq

    By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad  March 14, 2023
    Keen On

    Ian Buruma on the Dark History of World War II Collaborators

    By Keen On  March 14, 2023
    Basketball

    “That’s Just Playground Ball.” On Racism and Basketball in the 1970s

    By Theresa Runstedtler  March 13, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Was Nabokov’s Love of the Cinema a Way to Survive Exile?

    By History of Literature  March 13, 2023
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