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How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

Gísli Pálsson on the Undersung Work of the Naturalists John Wolley and Alfred Newton

By Gísli Pálsson | February 7, 2024

Why We Anthropomorphize Animals (and Always Have)

Why We Anthropomorphize Animals (and Always Have)

Hana Videen on the Origins of the Bestiary and Its Role in the Medieval Imagination

By Hana Videen | February 6, 2024

A Rich But Rare Genre: Exploring Islamic Historical Fiction

A Rich But Rare Genre: Exploring Islamic Historical Fiction

Jamila Ahmed Recommends Tariq Ali, Leila Aboulela, Suad Amiry, and More

By Jamila Ahmed | February 2, 2024

On What We Do (And Don’t) Understand About Tornadoes

On What We Do (And Don’t) Understand About Tornadoes

Nell Greenfieldboyce on the Science and Mystery Behind One of Weather’s Great Spectacles

By Nell Greenfieldboyce | February 1, 2024

Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

Amanda Chemeche Talks to the Author of “Don’t Call Me Home”

By Amanda Chemeche | February 1, 2024

Paradise Lost: How the Transatlantic Slave Trade Helped Fuel Violent Conflict in West Africa

Paradise Lost: How the Transatlantic Slave Trade Helped Fuel Violent Conflict in West Africa

Hannah Durkin on the Memories of the Survivors of the Slave Ship “Clotilda”

By Hannah Durkin | January 31, 2024

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Sisterhood of the Second World War: On Writing Female Spies’ Classified Adventures

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More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

By Gary Taubes | January 26, 2024

The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

Adam Shatz on the Life and Legacy of a Great Post-Colonialism Thinker

By Adam Shatz | January 25, 2024

How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

Odie Henderson on the Making of “Blacula” and the Broader History of Blaxploitation Cinema

By Odie Henderson | January 25, 2024

Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

József Debreczeni Recounts a Terrifying Train Ride from Hungary to Auschwitz with His Fellow Prisoners

By József Debreczeni | January 25, 2024

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

Danell Jones Grapples With a Beloved Author’s Casual Racism

By Danell Jones | January 25, 2024

Of Unborn Ghosts and Ancestral Murder; Or, Celebrating the Chaos That Led to Us

Of Unborn Ghosts and Ancestral Murder; Or, Celebrating the Chaos That Led to Us

Brian Klaas Considers the Fragile Foundations of Our Individual and Collective Existence

By Brian Klaas | January 24, 2024

Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

Sahar Delijani on the Legacies of the Arab Spring

By Sahar Delijani | January 23, 2024

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

Lee Gutkind on the Early Origins of a Very American Kind of Writing

By Lee Gutkind | January 23, 2024

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