• History

    Ukraine

    “War shortens the distance from person to person, from birth to death.” New Work by Ukrainian Poet Halyna Kruk

    By Literary Hub  March 17, 2022
    Feminism

    What an Ecofeminist Pioneer Can Teach Us Today

    By Myriam Bahaffou and Julie Gorecki  March 17, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Scott Anderson on What Russia’s Wars in Chechnya Tell Us about the Invasion of Ukraine

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 17, 2022
    Memoir

    Telling the Stories of the Wrongly Incarcerated

    By Phoebe Zerwick  March 17, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On the Second Battle of Kiev, 1943

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   March 17, 2022
    The Civil War

    How the North Beat the South, Morally and Economically

    By Roger Lowenstein  March 16, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Bad Men Join Motorcycle Gangs and How To Take Them Down

    By Keen On  March 16, 2022
    Family History

    Diana Abu-Jaber: “Among the Bedouins, a Knife is Never Just a Knife.”

    By Diana Abu-Jaber  March 15, 2022
    The Holocaust

    Maya Lee on the Unique and Fraught Position Her Mother Held During the Holocaust

    By Magda Hellinger and Maya Lee with David Brewster  March 15, 2022
    Neuroscience

    The Mysterious Man Who Discovered Neurons and Changed Science Forever

    By Benjamin Ehrlich  March 15, 2022
    Family Stories

    How a Secret Becomes a Story: Melissa Fu on the Importance of Listening to Elders

    By Melissa Fu  March 15, 2022
    Politics

    How To Leave the World Behind: On the Dreams of Utopian Groupies

    By Adrian Shirk  March 14, 2022
    The Hub

    The Huntington has acquired Eve Babitz’s archive.

    By Walker Caplan  March 11, 2022
    Literary History

    On the Centenary of Jack Kerouac’s Birth, Rarely Seen Archival Material from His Publisher

    By Literary Hub  March 11, 2022
    Exile

    Lenin in Paris: When the City Was a Refuge for Russian Artists and Dissidents

    By Helen Rappaport  March 11, 2022
    Migration

    On Surviving a Journey Across the Sahara (and Other Impossibilities)

    By Ousman Umar  March 10, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On the 1941 Battle of Kiev

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   March 10, 2022
    The Hub

    A new map of the London Underground highlights the women who shaped the city.

    By Corinne Segal  March 9, 2022
    Ukraine

    Why We Should Read About the Soviet Past In Order to Understand Ukraine Now

    By Sofi Oksanen  March 9, 2022
    Wrongful Conviction

    The Life of Darryl Hunt, Before His Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment

    By Phoebe Zerwick  March 9, 2022
    The Hub

    Can ecological extinction models help us understand the literature we’ve lost?

    By Jonny Diamond  March 8, 2022
    Torture

    What Really Happened to Abu Zubaydah at Notorious Polish Black Site Stare Kiejkuty?

    By Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy  March 8, 2022
    Music history

    Hanif Abdurraqib Breaks Down History’s Famous Beefs

    By Hanif Abdurraqib  March 8, 2022
    Rural America

    What Comes After “Kmart Realism”? Writing Place in the Era of American Uniformity

    By Lee Cole  March 8, 2022
    Language

    How The Inca Used Knots To Tell Stories

    By Silvia Ferrara  March 8, 2022
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