• History

    Philosophy

    What the Stoics Understood About Death (And Can Teach Us)

    By David Fideler  December 16, 2021
    Film History

    “Garbo Talks!” On the 1930 Sound Film That Gave Greta a Voice

    By Robert Gottlieb  December 15, 2021
    Greek Literature

    Excavating the Insights of a Once Beloved Greek Novelist

    By Johanna Hanink  December 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Reminder: the most famous short story in American literature was written in one day.

    By Walker Caplan  December 14, 2021
    The Hub

    The Red Badge of Courage now has a sequel in which Henry Fleming becomes mayor.

    By Walker Caplan  December 13, 2021
    Criticism

    On Melville, Mendacity, and Letting the Unknowable Find Its Way in Your Writing

    By David Kirby  December 10, 2021
    French literature

    In Which a Direct Line is Drawn From Flaubert’s Unfinished Novel to Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

    By Alex Lockwood  December 10, 2021
    Open Source

    “How Did We Get Stuck?” David Wengrow on Imagining Alternatives To Our Current Systems

    By Open Source  December 10, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: An Interview with Louis Ozawa

    By Behind the Mic   December 9, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Ian Toll on the Lead Up to the Pearl Harbor Attack

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   December 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Remember the time Mario Vargas Llosa punched Gabriel García Márquez?

    By Walker Caplan  December 8, 2021
    Poets

    Trying to Write About “The Two John Miltons”

    By Joe Moshenska  December 8, 2021
    Art History

    On the Birth of the Art Instinct

    By John-Paul Stonard  December 8, 2021
    Medieval History

    The Hidden Agency of Women in Medieval Stories, from Beowulf to Guthlac’s Life

    By Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry  December 8, 2021
    Natural Resources

    The Dangerous, Dirty Job of Oil Extraction: On the History of Offshore Exploration

    By Tabitha Lasley  December 8, 2021
    Psychology

    The Scapegoat: Siri Hustvedt on the Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 7, 2021
    Whiteness

    How Do You Kill a God? On Captain Cook’s Ill-Fated Arrival in Hawaii

    By Anna Della Subin  December 7, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Amitav Ghosh on the Urgency of De-centering Humans and Re-centering Land

    By Emergence Magazine  December 6, 2021
    Food History

    A Brief History of Cheesy Pasta

    By Massimo Montanari  December 6, 2021
    Geography

    The Boundaries Between Nations Are Blurrier Than We Think

    By James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti  December 6, 2021
    2020 Election

    Stealing Georgia: Trump Gets Desperate, Kanye’s Publicist Shows Up on Ruby Freeman’s Doorstep, and… 28,000 Missing Votes?

    By Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague  December 4, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Who Does the Supreme Court Belong to Now?

    By Just the Right Book   December 2, 2021
    Archives

    On the Little-Known Archives Keeping Civil Rights Activists’ Stories Alive

    By Suzanne Cope  December 1, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Meg Waite Clayton on Finding New Ways to Tell Old Stories

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 1, 2021
    Race

    On the Monumental, Lasting Impact of Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympic Games

    By John Feinstein  November 30, 2021
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