• History

    American History

    How Vaudeville Told the Story of America… to Americans

    By Geoffrey Hilsabeck  July 22, 2021
    Events

    No Billionaires Detected: What It Was Like to Walk on the Moon in the Summer of 1971

    By Earl Swift  July 21, 2021
    Poetry

    Inside the Early Days of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

    By Karen Jaime  July 21, 2021
    Sexual Politics

    How Anthony Comstock, Enemy to Women of the Gilded Age, Attempted to Ban Contraception

    By Amy Sohn  July 20, 2021
    Surfing

    Surfing as Sacrament: Returning to New York’s Waves on September 12, 2001

    By Thad Ziolkowski  July 20, 2021
    Keen On

    Adrian Wooldridge on the American Revolt Against Meritocracy

    By Keen On  July 20, 2021
    News and Culture

    David Lowery on the Strange, Arduous Journey of Adapting The Green Knight for Film

    By David Lowery  July 19, 2021
    Corruption

    The Corrupt Arrogance of William Barr

    By Elie Honig  July 19, 2021
    Aesthetics

    How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press

    By Nicholas Frankel  July 19, 2021
    Smells

    A Brief History of Perfume: Visiting an Archive of Ancient Scents

    By Sarah Everts  July 19, 2021
    The Holocaust

    How Two Telephone Books Tell a Condensed Story of the Holocaust

    By Miljenko Jergović, translated by Mirza Purić  July 19, 2021
    Cycling

    How a Small French Newspaper Began the Tour de France

    By Adin Dobkin  July 16, 2021
    The Hub

    For the first time, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries will be available to the public.

    By Walker Caplan  July 15, 2021
    The Hub

    A new digital humanities project celebrates Dante’s impact on art around the world.

    By Walker Caplan  July 15, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Hans Onderwater on the Hunger Winter in the German-Occupied Netherlands

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   July 15, 2021
    The Hub

    “It was sickening”: Read Chekhov’s withering review of his own first play’s opening night.

    By Walker Caplan  July 14, 2021
    Migrations

    How Sicilians Are Mobilizing in Support of Migrants’ Rights

    By Jamie Mackay  July 14, 2021
    Queer History

    On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

    By Rae Nudson  July 14, 2021
    Neuroscience

    The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

    By Scott A. Small  July 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Take a virtual tour of Walden Pond.

    By Walker Caplan  July 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Powell’s Books is celebrating its 50-year anniversary with a curated collection of 50 books.

    By Walker Caplan  July 12, 2021
    TV

    The Epically Terrible Star Wars Holiday Special: An Oral History

    By Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross  July 12, 2021
    Indigenous Peoples

    How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed

    By Emil’ Keme  July 12, 2021
    Travel

    Now you can buy the glorious mansion where Mark Twain died.

    By Walker Caplan  July 9, 2021
    Jewish Literature

    What Makes Jewish Literature “Jewish”?

    By Ilan Stavans  July 9, 2021
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