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    literary criticism

    L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

    Ed Simon on Grifters, the Chicago World Fair, and Oz as Symbol of a Modern USA

     
    By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
    Ancient History

    The Woman With the Axe: On Fu Hao, Ancient China’s Warrior Queen

    By Rachel McCarthy James  May 15, 2025
    Supreme Court

    Does the Supreme Court Really Just Run on Vibes Now?

    By Leah Litman  May 15, 2025
    Prehistory

    How Language Evolved Out of Cultural Exchange Between Europe and the Near East

    By Laura Spinney  May 15, 2025
    TV Writing

    Enjoying the Sweet Stink of The Gilded Age in the Age of Billionaires

    By Danielle Teller  May 15, 2025
    The Hub

    What to read next if you loved Sinners.

    By Brittany Allen  May 14, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Sexuality

    Why the World’s First Celebrity Sex Therapist Had to Flee the Nazis

    By Daniel Brook  May 14, 2025
    Apocalypses

    And If This Is(n’t) the End of the World? Why We Dread—and Desire—Apocalypse

    By Alex Foster  May 14, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

    By Literary Hub  May 13, 2025
    History of Science

    When Bees Discover the Scientists Who Dedicated Their Lives to Studying Them

    From Peter Kuper’s Illustrated Natural History, “Insectopolis”

    By Peter Kuper  May 16, 2025
    Transphobia

    How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans

    By Tracy Slater  May 12, 2025
    Ukraine

    Centuries of Sediment: Unearthing a History of Violence, Conquest, and Resistance in Ukraine

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  May 12, 2025
    What If?

    Mushroom Cloud Over Manhattan: What Would Happen in the First Few Hours of Nuclear War

    By Mark Lynas  May 12, 2025
    Antifascism

    What If It Is Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

    David Renton Rereads Lewis and Roth in a New Era of Authoritarianism

    By David Renton  May 12, 2025
    Catholicism

    You Don’t Have to Believe in God to Find Hope in Pope Leo

    By Aron Solomon  May 9, 2025
    Motherhood

    What Motherhood in Kenya Reveals About the Nature of Family

    By Abigail Leonard  May 9, 2025
    World War II

    How a Group of Fearless American Women Defied Convention to Defeat the Nazis

    By Becky Aikman  May 8, 2025
    Women at War

    Remembering the Unacknowledged Sacrifices of the Red Army’s Female Snipers

    Shelly Sanders on the Brave Women Silenced By the Country They Fought to Protect

    By Shelly Sanders  May 8, 2025
    World War II

    From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

    By Natasha Lester  May 8, 2025
    The Hub

    The Schomburg Library is turning 100 this year—and throwing an epic rager.

    By Brittany Allen  May 7, 2025
    literary criticism

    Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

    By Philip Hoare  May 7, 2025
    Irish History

    An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

    Padraic X. Scanlan on Jonathan Swift, Colonization, and Dispossession

    By Padraic X. Scanlan  May 7, 2025
    Globalization

    What the Voyage of a Single Container Ship Reveals About the World Economy

    By Ian Kumekawa  May 6, 2025
    Social Movements

    How New York City’s Radical Social Movements Gave Rise to Hip-Hop

    By Dean Van Nguyen  May 6, 2025
    Nature

    On Science, Ancient Philosophy, and Re-Enchanting Nature

    By M.D. Usher  May 13, 2025
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