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The Day Explorers Finally Found One of the World’s Great Lost Shipwrecks

The Day Explorers Finally Found One of the World’s Great Lost Shipwrecks

A Century After Ernest Shackleton’s Death, The Endurance Reveals Itself

By Mensun Bound | March 3, 2023

Yes, Sydney, Australia in the 1960s Was the Drag Capital of the World

Yes, Sydney, Australia in the 1960s Was the Drag Capital of the World

Amid Deep-Rooted Homophobia, Titillating and Fantastically Glamorous Shows Were Annual Events

By Craig Seligman | March 3, 2023

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By Janet Manley | March 2, 2023

How Karl Lagerfeld Learned to Love Literature

How Karl Lagerfeld Learned to Love Literature

William Middleton on the Figures Who Nurtured the Intellectual Development of a Fashion Icon

By William Middleton | March 1, 2023

A Piece of Whalebone, a Butcher’s Shop, a Tailor: The Makings of A Pioneer Abortionist

A Piece of Whalebone, a Butcher’s Shop, a Tailor: The Makings of A Pioneer Abortionist

Jennifer Wright on Madame Restell’s Curiously Skilled Abortions

By Jennifer Wright | March 1, 2023

Pinning Down the Cagey Emotions of Poet Amy Clampitt

Pinning Down the Cagey Emotions of Poet Amy Clampitt

Willard Spiegelman on the Mysteries of Biography in the Poetic Realm

By Willard Spiegelman | February 28, 2023

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Reid Mitenbuler on the Drive to Wanderlust and the Neuroticism of the Present

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The Battle for the Black Soul: On the Poetic Embodiment of the Black Preacher

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Gregory Pardlo Contextualizes James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones for the Contemporary Era

By Gregory Pardlo | February 21, 2023

Lynn Cullen on the Woman Who Pioneered the Polio Vaccine and Changed the World

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In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

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On Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and the Birth of Superman

By Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler | February 16, 2023

How One Week in Chicago Changed Abraham Lincoln’s Life—and the Fate of the United States

How One Week in Chicago Changed Abraham Lincoln’s Life—and the Fate of the United States

Edward Achorn on the Miraculous Nomination of an Illinois Lawyer

By Edward Achorn | February 16, 2023

How to Love a Writer: On the Care and Feeding of a Creative Marriage

How to Love a Writer: On the Care and Feeding of a Creative Marriage

Jess deCourcy Hinds Wonders How Literary Couples Make It Work

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | February 14, 2023

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

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Mark Whitaker on the Making of a Modern American Revolutionary

By Mark Whitaker | February 13, 2023

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