• History

    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    The Heavy History of Names: On Political Forgetting and Erasure in India

    By Manan Ahmed Asif  October 8, 2021
    New Books Network

    Cadwell Turnbull on the Social Realities Behind Speculative Fiction

    By New Books Network  October 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Instead of acting like Kidney Person, be more like these 19th-century literary haters.

    By Walker Caplan  October 7, 2021
    On Racism

    Colin Kaepernick on the Link Between Abolition and Black Liberation

    By Colin Kaepernick  October 7, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Evan Osnos on Collective Intervention and Moments of Social Transition

    By Just the Right Book   October 7, 2021
    Nature Writing

    How the Word “Landscape” Helped Change Americans’ Relationship to Nature

    By Tyler Green  October 7, 2021
    The 2021 Cundill History Prize

    Peddlers, Bakers, Wool-Sorters: The Economic History of Women in Angoulême

    By Emma Rothschild  October 7, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Elizabeth Wetmore and Kathryn Nuernberger on SB8, the History of Abortion, and Roe v. Wade in Danger

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 7, 2021
    The Hub

    On the mysterious obscenity scribbled on John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath manuscript.

    By Walker Caplan  October 5, 2021
    The Hub

    Astronomers have determined the exact hour that Mary Shelley thought of Frankenstein.

    By Emily Temple  October 5, 2021
    Black Lives Matter

    How the Killing of George Floyd Reflects America’s Repeated History of Racism and Police Brutality

    By Curtis Bunn  October 5, 2021
    News and Culture

    On Constancia de la Mora and the Plight of Writers in Exile

    By Soledad Fox Maura  October 4, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Jack Dash and Luke Swenson on Ecologies that Resist Borders

    By Emergence Magazine  October 4, 2021
    Keen On

    Janine di Giovanni on the End of Christianity in Its Historical Homeland

    By Keen On  October 4, 2021
    Food History

    When Life Gives You Lemons, It’s a Status Symbol: On the Evolving Literary and Cultural History of Citrus

    By Jean Huang  October 1, 2021
    Pirates

    On the Ebb and Flow of 21st-Century Maritime Piracy

    By Bruce Jones  October 1, 2021
    New Books Network

    On the First Modern Person to Enter King Tutankhamun’s Tomb

    By New Books Network  October 1, 2021
    Indigenous History

    On the History of Powhatan Culture and Colonization: A Reading List

    By Brian Swann  October 1, 2021
    New in Nonfiction

    New and Noteworthy Nonfiction to Read This October

    By Literary Hub  September 30, 2021
    Anne-Marie Slaughter

    Anne-Marie Slaughter on Radical Honesty as a Key to Growth

    By Keen On  September 29, 2021
    The Hub

    This year’s literary MacArthur fellows on the best writing advice they’ve received (and more).

    By Corinne Segal  September 28, 2021
    War

    The New Weapons of War: Disinformation, Economic Coercion, and Online Disruption

    By Seth G. Jones  September 28, 2021
    Disaster

    How Should Nations Handle the Human Aftermath of Disasters?

    By Robert A. Jensen  September 28, 2021
    Keen On

    Joseph Weisberg on Russia and America, the Very Best of Enemies

    By Keen On  September 28, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2021
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