History

Nature Writing

Sylvia Plath… Nature Writer?

Marlena Williams on the Poet's Fraught Relationship with the Wild

 
By Marlena Williams  October 23, 2020
Commons

Towards a Definition of the Brown Commons

By José Esteban Muñoz  October 23, 2020
New Books Network

The Ever-Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Book Publishing

By New Books Network  October 23, 2020
On Translation

WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a ‘Mother Tongue’

By Literary Hub  October 23, 2020
The Antibody Reading Series

Antibody: Starring Angela Chen, Athena Dixon, and Melissa Faliveno

By The Antibody Reading Series  October 22, 2020
Essayists

A Brief History of the Political Essay

By David Bromwich  October 22, 2020
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Cookbooks

On Turn-of-the-Century Suffrage Cookbooks, Trojan Horse For Women’s Equality

By Laura Kumin  October 22, 2020
We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Restoring the World’s Most Iconic Fighter Plane

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 22, 2020
The Hub

Tim O’Brien recited poetry to himself to get through the war.

By Jonny Diamond  October 21, 2020
Indian Literature

The Enduring Strength and Richness of Kashmir’s
Literary Life

Sharanya Deepak on the Many Landscapes of Kashmiri Writing

By Sharanya Deepak  October 23, 2020
Presidential Campaign 2020

On Voting: It’s Always the Most Important Election of Your Life

By Todd Gitlin  October 21, 2020
Medieval History

Cheap Writing Surfaces and Medieval Bureaucracy Helped Popularize the Alphabet

By Judith Flanders  October 21, 2020
Art and Politics

Czesław Miłosz Confronts the Dark and Immutable Order of the World

By Czesław Miłosz  October 21, 2020
New Books Network

How Liberal Idealism Has Failed Modern Diplomacy

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network  October 21, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

By Daniel Tam-Claiborne  October 20, 2020
Lit Century

Why Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life

By Lit Century   October 20, 2020
On Race

When a Young Malcolm X Addressed a Hartford Housing Project

By Les Payne and Tamara Payne  October 20, 2020
Nightlife

The Center of the Universe? Capturing New York City 90s Nightlife

Gabriel Sanchez on Archiving a Party That Never Ended

By Gabriel Sanchez  October 20, 2020
Keen On

Why Should We Care About So-Called Genius?

By Keen On  October 20, 2020
Revolutions

The Complicated Resistance Efforts of Enslaved Women in the West Indies

By Stella Dadzie  October 20, 2020
Time to Eat the Dogs

How Capitalism Shaped Our Modern Image of Dinosaurs

By Time to Eat the Dogs   October 20, 2020
Discovering Old Manuscripts

How a Rare and Ancient Manuscript Moved Me to Write a Novel

Natalka Burian on the Allure of the Voynich Manuscript

By Natalka Burian  October 19, 2020
Republicanism

The GOP Lost Its Way Long Before Trump

By Carlos Lozada  October 19, 2020
Photography

What Does It Mean to Look at Photos of Imagined Violence?

By Sarah Sentilles  October 19, 2020
Reading Lists

Where Do Reading Lists Come From? (And Why Do We Love Them?)

By William Germano and Kit Nicholls  October 21, 2020
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