History

Psychology

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

“Every myth explains too much, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t truths to be found in the story.”

 
By Siri Hustvedt  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
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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
Whiteness

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

Anna Della Subin Considers the Death of the British Explorer and the Perpetuation of Whiteness as Divinity

By Anna Della Subin  December 7, 2021
Literary History

The Italian Electrical Scientist Who (May Have) Inspired Frankenstein

By Timothy J. Jorgensen  November 30, 2021
Arab Literature

How Did the Arab Spring Change Fiction?

By Talya Zax  November 29, 2021
Book Dreams

On the Life of Belle da Costa Greene, Visionary Librarian and Democratizer of Museums

By Book Dreams  November 29, 2021
Keen On

Roderick Beaton on the Greek Revolution of 1821

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On  November 29, 2021
Civil Rights

We Shall Overcome: John Lewis on the Symbolism of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Urgency of the Civil Rights Movement

By John Lewis  November 24, 2021
Folk Music

How Black Spiritual Songs Gave Rise to New Musical Genres

By Joseph Horowitz  November 24, 2021
Journalism

Revisiting Hunter S. Thompson’s Weird, Brief Stint as a Local Sports Editor

By David S. Wills  November 23, 2021
Language

In Search of Words for the Most Obscure Sorrows

John Koenig on the Project of Capturing the Subtleties of Human Emotion

By John Koenig  November 23, 2021
The Hub

Nearly 200 video interviews with ACT UP New York members are now available online.

By Walker Caplan  November 22, 2021
Conspiracies

What Bob Dylan Does—Or Doesn’t—Know About the Assassination of JFK

By Jefferson Morley  November 22, 2021
Spirituality

Why Black Women Teachers Should Cultivate and Protect Their Spirituality

By Cynthia B. Dillard  November 22, 2021
The Hub

On the influential librarian who hated Goodnight Moon.

By Walker Caplan  November 19, 2021
Keen On

Aviva Chomsky on Why Climate Justice Is Just As Important as Science

By Keen On  November 19, 2021
The Hub

EXCLUSIVE: Watch Kurt Vonnegut Recall Entering Dresden as a POW

By Jonny Diamond  November 18, 2021
Activism

How the Great Dorothy Day’s Anger Was an Expression of Her Faith

By Kaya Oakes  November 30, 2021
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