History

The Hub

About all those unproduced screenplays William Faulkner wrote . . .

 
By Walker Caplan  May 10, 2021
Keen On

Jonathan Taplin: When Music Was a Vanguard for Political Movements

By Keen On  May 10, 2021
The Hub

“If I could only see it!” Read a newly unearthed letter from Tennessee Williams to Eugene O’Neill.

By Walker Caplan  May 7, 2021
Science fiction

A Writer From the Future: Who Was Sci Fi Iconoclast Izumi Suzuki?

By Andrew Ridker  May 7, 2021
Keen On

Niall Ferguson on the Dangers of Focusing on a Single Disaster Scenario

By Keen On  May 7, 2021
Reading Lists

On the Power of Fiction: 8 Novels About Little-Known Historical Events

By Chanel Cleeton  May 7, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Open Source

After the Genocide, How Much Armenian Art Remains?

By Open Source  May 7, 2021
Monsters

The Truth is Out There: On the Wild and Divisive World of Cryptozoology

By T. S. Mart and Mel Cabre  May 6, 2021
Politics

On James Baldwin’s Unflinching Exposé of American Greed and Racial Terror

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.  May 6, 2021
Organized Crime

Reckoning with the Impact of the Camorra on My Family’s Livelihood

John Domini on Life Within “The System” in Naples

By John Domini  May 10, 2021
We Have Ways of Making You Talk

The Women Codebreakers Who Helped Win the War from Bletchley Park

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   May 6, 2021
Historical Fiction

How Do You Write a Historical Novel About Under-Documented Lives?

By Emily Hourican  May 5, 2021
Gardening

Natural Alchemy: On the Long History of Community Gardens in Indianapolis

By Angela Herrmann  May 5, 2021
Marriage

Cross Your Legs, Stretch Your Hymen, Toss Your Ambition: The World According to Early “Marriage Classes”

Danielle Dreilinger on the College Courses That
Sought to Reduce Divorce

By Danielle Dreilinger  May 4, 2021
The Arctic

Polar Nightmare: On One of the First International Expeditions of the Modern Era

By Julian Sancton  May 4, 2021
Jazz

How Malcolm X Inspired John Coltrane to Embrace Islamic Spirituality

By Richard Brent Turner  May 4, 2021
Literary History

How To: On the Unlikely Political and Cultural Power of the DIY Manual

By Bethany Kaylor  May 3, 2021
Nazis

Drunkards, Nazis, and Fascist Masculinity: The Ambivalent Resistance Lit of Hans Fallada

Clayton Wickham Rereads The Drinker

By Clayton Wickham  May 3, 2021
Letters

Thoughts on Sports, Real Estate, and Drinking: Robert Frost Writes to His Son

By Literary Hub  May 3, 2021
The Hub

Of course Vladimir Nabokov imagined emoticons over a decade before they were invented.

By Emily Temple  April 30, 2021
The Paranormal

The Violent Haunting That Rattled an English Suburb

By Kate Summerscale  April 30, 2021
Open Source

Luke Menand on George Orwell’s Vision of Freedom

In Conversation with Christopher Lydon on Radio Open Source

By Open Source  April 30, 2021
American Presidents

Rebecca Solnit: How Donald Trump Wanted the End of History

By Rebecca Solnit  April 29, 2021
American History

One of the Most Important American Documents You’ve Never Heard Of

By Nicole Eustace  April 29, 2021
American History

How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s

By Ken Ellingwood  May 6, 2021
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