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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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White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

By Benjamin Herold | January 23, 2024

How Witches Shifted from Daily Healers to Heretics and Dangerous Women Under Christian Rule

By Marion Gibson | January 22, 2024

Unlocking Reason: How the Deaf Created Their Own System of Communication

By Moshe Kasher | January 22, 2024

The Cult of the Hustle: Why We All Want to Become Our Own Boss

The Cult of the Hustle: Why We All Want to Become Our Own Boss

Benjamin C. Waterhouse on the Economic and Political Factors Behind the Current Gig Economy

By Benjamin C. Waterhouse | January 22, 2024

Why Are We Here? On the Philosophical Possibilities of “Cosmic Purpose”

Why Are We Here? On the Philosophical Possibilities of “Cosmic Purpose”

Philip Pullman, Philip Goff, and Nigel Warburton Ponder the Big Questions of Our Existence

By Philip Pullman, Philip Goff and Nigel Warburton | January 19, 2024

Nick Romeo on the Profound—and Scary—Influence of Economic Ideas

Nick Romeo on the Profound—and Scary—Influence of Economic Ideas

“It’s hard to imagine a group of businessmen aggressively lobbying against the physics curriculum at MIT.”

By Nick Romeo | January 19, 2024

Why We Should All Read <br>Hannah Arendt Now

Why We Should All Read
Hannah Arendt Now

Lyndsey Stonebridge on “The Origins of Totalitarianism” and the Failure of Democracy

By Lyndsey Stonebridge | January 18, 2024

Theater of the Mind: How Radio Brought the World Into American Homes

Theater of the Mind: How Radio Brought the World Into American Homes

Paul J. Nahin on News and Entertainment in the Time Before Television

By Paul J. Nahin | January 17, 2024

How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rose Up and Won an Underdog Political Victory

How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rose Up and Won an Underdog Political Victory

Joshua Green Details AOC’s Grassroots Campaign Against the Incumbent Joseph Crowley

By Joshua Green | January 11, 2024

Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years

Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Cold Victory”

By Jane Ciabattari | January 9, 2024

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