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What Makes a Wonder? On the Human Need to Map Out Monumental Greatness

What Makes a Wonder? On the Human Need to Map Out Monumental Greatness

Bettany Hughes Considers the Creation and Construction of the Ancient World

By Bettany Hughes | April 25, 2024

Crash Again, Crash Better: A Brief History of Failed Attempts at Human Flight

Crash Again, Crash Better: A Brief History of Failed Attempts at Human Flight

Joe Fassler Ponders Our Innate Desire to Rise Above It All

By Joe Fassler | April 24, 2024

Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

In Which “the Intellectual Handmaidens of the Capitalists” Are Taken to Task

By Joseph E. Stiglitz | April 24, 2024

How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

Nicola Nice on the Hostess Langston Hughes Called the “Joy Goddess of Harlem”

By Nicola Nice | April 24, 2024

On America’s Two-Party System... And the Damage It Has Done

On America’s Two-Party System... And the Damage It Has Done

Gabrielle Bellot Tries to Think Beyond the Red/Blue Binary That Makes Enemies of Neighbors

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 23, 2024

The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

Ed Simon on the Lives and Legacies of Two Icons of Romanticism and Rebellion

By Ed Simon | April 19, 2024

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How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

By Erin Zimmerman | April 19, 2024

PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

By Literary Hub | April 18, 2024

What if Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales came out today?

By James Folta | April 17, 2024

How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

Adam Kuper on Gustav Klemm and the Fraught History of Cultural Institutions in Europe

By Adam Kuper | April 17, 2024

The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

Gabriel Brownstein on the Long Tradition of Men Misdiagnosing Women’s Maladies

By Gabriel Brownstein | April 17, 2024

What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

Steven W. Thrasher on the Myth of the “Independent Journalist”

By Steven W. Thrasher | April 16, 2024

Earth? Really? On Why Aliens Would Probably Skip Visiting Our Planet

Earth? Really? On Why Aliens Would Probably Skip Visiting Our Planet

Lisa Kaltenegger Considers Carl Sagan, Alien Equations, and How Sci-Fi Can Help Us Imagine Extraterrestrial Life

By Lisa Kaltenegger | April 16, 2024

How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

Michael Korda on the Creative and Sentimental Camaraderie Between Two Soldier Poets

By Michael Korda | April 16, 2024

Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

“Sometimes you hear an echo of a sound that has not yet been voiced, of a shot that has not yet been fired.”

By Ben Ehrenreich | April 15, 2024

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Alissa Quart Reckons With the Precarity of the Writing Life

By Alissa Quart | April 15, 2024

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