• History

    Culture Wars

    Moral Panics Never Go Out of Style: On the Corrosive Effects of the Culture Wars

    By Arlene Stein  November 16, 2022
    Writing

    What If… Listicles Are Actually an Ancient Form of Writing and Narrative?

    By James Vincent  November 16, 2022
    Nature Writing

    The Problem with Calling Nature “Wild”

    By Phillip Vannini and April Vannini  November 16, 2022
    Labor

    A Brief History of the Attempts to Unionize Walmart

    By Rick Wartzman  November 16, 2022
    The Writing Life

    How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

    By Brigitta Olubas  November 15, 2022
    Ancient Egypt

    A Brief Excavation of the Bows, Arrows, and Chariots in King Tut’s Tomb

    By Toby Wilkinson  November 15, 2022
    Poetry

    On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

    By Cat Fitzpatrick  November 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Cary Grant as The Acrobat: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn’t Really Exist

    By Keen On  November 14, 2022
    Relationships

    Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin through Their Postcards to Each Other

    By Chip Livingston  November 14, 2022
    The Sea

    A Brief History of Shipwrecks in Literature

    By Alan G. Jamieson  November 11, 2022
    Astrophysics

    How Human Curiosity Unlocked the Scientific Secrets of the Universe

    By Brian Thomas Swimme  November 11, 2022
    Keen On

    The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army

    By Keen On  November 11, 2022
    Keen On

    How Putin Thinks Like a Warmongering 19th-Century Imperialist and Why Ukraine Will Be His Last Colonial War

    By Keen On  November 11, 2022
    Keen On

    Builders and Destroyers: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe

    By Keen On  November 10, 2022
    Pilgrimages

    Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 9, 2022
    Crime

    Alia Trabucco Zerán on Writing About Women Who Kill

    By Alia Trabucco Zerán  November 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Our Man in Tokyo: Could Pearl Harbor Have Been Avoided With More Skillful American Diplomacy?

    By Keen On  November 9, 2022
    Mythology

    Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

    By Stephanie McCarter  November 8, 2022
    Indigenous History

    How Grief and Revenge Made Geronimo Into a Legendary War Chief

    By H.W. Brands  November 8, 2022
    Hip Hop

    On Atlanta’s Essential Role in the Making of American Hip-Hop

    By Joe Coscarelli  November 7, 2022
    Keen On

    What It Was Like to Be a Jew in Lincoln’s Civil War Army

    By Keen On  November 7, 2022
    Ukraine

    Four Ukrainian Writers on Literature, Solidarity, and the Future of Justice

    By Chytomo Staff  November 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Can’t America Escape Its Racist Past?

    By Keen On  November 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Inside High Noon: Why the 1952 Classic is as Relevant Today as It Was 70 Years Ago

    By Keen On  November 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Tutankhamun’s Royal Mom and Dad: On Egypt’s Golden Couple

    By Keen On  November 4, 2022
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