How Oscar Wilde Created a Queer, Mysterious Symbol in Green Carnations

How Oscar Wilde Created a Queer, Mysterious Symbol in Green Carnations

Tara Isabella Burton on One of Literature’s Great Trendsetters

By Tara Isabella Burton | June 27, 2023

Class, Power, and Murder on the Emerald Isle: The Case of Malcolm Macarthur

Class, Power, and Murder on the Emerald Isle: The Case of Malcolm Macarthur

Mark O’Connell Investigates the Crimes and the Killer That Defined a Generation

By Mark O’Connell | June 27, 2023

How Inflammatory Rhetoric Feeds the Insurrectional Fantasies of the Far-Right

How Inflammatory Rhetoric Feeds the Insurrectional Fantasies of the Far-Right

David Neiwert on Trump-Inspired Domestic Terrorism

By David Neiwert | June 27, 2023

On the “Peace” Conference That Changed the 20th Century

On the “Peace” Conference That Changed the 20th Century

Historian Margaret MacMillan in Conversation on Baillie Gifford’s Read Smart Podcast

By Read Smart | June 27, 2023

Cinematic Transcendence: On Legendary Quests and Wuxia Cinema

Cinematic Transcendence: On Legendary Quests and Wuxia Cinema

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

By The Cosmic Library | June 27, 2023

The oldest book in the world is about taxing beer.

The oldest book in the world is about taxing beer.

By Jonny Diamond | June 26, 2023

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How a Venetian Monk Created the First Annotated Map of the World

By Meredith F. Small | June 26, 2023

Isabella Hammad: The Idea of Apolitical Art is Very Political

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Literature in the Bardo: Tenzin Dickie on the Past, Present, and Future of the Tibetan Essay

By Tenzin Dickie | June 26, 2023

Jackson Lears on the American Pursuit of Vitality From Walt Whitman to Donald Trump

Jackson Lears on the American Pursuit of Vitality From Walt Whitman to Donald Trump

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Jason Del Rey on the Amazon vs. Walmart War For Our Wallets, Bodies, and Souls

Jason Del Rey on the Amazon vs. Walmart War For Our Wallets, Bodies, and Souls

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 26, 2023

Garrett Neiman on Uprooting the Old Boy’s Club in Order to Transform America

Garrett Neiman on Uprooting the Old Boy’s Club in Order to Transform America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Between Fear and Resignation: How German Writers Reacted to Hitler’s Rise

Between Fear and Resignation: How German Writers Reacted to Hitler’s Rise

Uwe Wittstock on Intellectual Suppression in the Early Days of Nazi Terror

By Uwe Wittstock | June 23, 2023

More Than A Children’s Story: <em>The Velveteen Rabbit</em> At 100

More Than A Children’s Story: The Velveteen Rabbit At 100

Lisa Rowe Fraustino on the Enduring Relevance of Margery Williams’s Most Famous Book

By Lisa Rowe Fraustino | June 23, 2023

Stephen Kiernan on Marc Chagall’s Life in France and Experience of WWII

Stephen Kiernan on Marc Chagall’s Life in France and Experience of WWII

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 23, 2023

Peter Cave on the Scholars, Dreamers, and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live

Peter Cave on the Scholars, Dreamers, and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 23, 2023

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