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History

India

Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence and Partition

Featuring Anita Desai, Hari Kunzru, Salman Rushdie, and More

 
By Literary Hub  September 28, 2022
Nazi Germany

What Was Germany Like in the Decade After Hitler?

By Harald Jähner  September 28, 2022
On Racism

How White Supremacy Was Codified Into Law in America

By Margaret A. Burnham  September 28, 2022
Language

Generation Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza  September 27, 2022
Literary History

What Don Quixote Reveals About an Empire At Its Peak

By Giles Tremlett  September 27, 2022
Audiobook Break

Hold These Truths Act I and II: On Gordon Hirabayashi’s Courageous Stand

By Audiobook Break  September 27, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
News and Culture

Read Ted Berrigan’s Original Review of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems

By Ted Berrigan  September 26, 2022
Architecture

How an Architect’s Endless Pursuit of Artistic Perfection Drove Him To Despair

By Charlotte Van den Broeck  September 26, 2022
Clothing

Julia Reed on the Memories Woven Into Well-Worn Clothes

By Julia Reed  September 26, 2022
Violence

Who Has the Right to Bear Arms? A Brief History

Elsa Dorlin on Legal Traditions of Self-Defense

By Elsa Dorlin  September 28, 2022
Keen On

How American Shipyard Workers Might Offer Us Lessons on How to Reunite the Country

By Keen On  September 23, 2022
Criminal Justice

How a Lawyer of the Downtrodden Came To Represent Two Wealthy Killers

By Greg King and Penny Wilson  September 22, 2022
Politics

Neither Natural Nor Inevitable: How Language Masks Gentrification

By Leslie Kern  September 22, 2022
The Hub

Hemingway made fun of Fitzgerald’s boxing abilities in a newly-uncovered short story.

By Corinne Segal  September 21, 2022
Design

Fury Made Visible: Call and Response for Civil Rights through Graphic Design

By Silas Munro  September 21, 2022
Nostalgia

How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

By Jess deCourcy Hinds  September 19, 2022
Witches

A Brief History of Calling Women Witches

By Eleanor Herman  September 19, 2022
Politics

How Barack Obama Helped Joe Biden Become the 46th President of the United States

Gabriel Debenedetti on the Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between an Ex-President and His VP

By Gabriel Debenedetti  September 19, 2022
Folklore

In Praise of the Bold, Powerful Women of Slavic Fairy Tales

By Olesya Salnikova Gilmore  September 19, 2022
World War II

Fictionalizing the Stories of Two Women Who Fought to Save Jewish Children in World War II-Era Europe

By Kristin Beck  September 16, 2022
The Hub

Roald Dahl’s writing routine involved a shed, a sleeping bag, and cigarettes.

By Corinne Segal  September 15, 2022
Mental health

How Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther Led to a Rare Suicide Cluster

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras on the Dangers of Social Contagion

By Dr. Nicholas Kardaras  September 15, 2022
American Politics

On the Political Weaponization of Words: From “Miscegenation” to “Groomer”

By Bruce Handy  September 15, 2022
Espionage

The True Stories of the Women on the Front Lines of America’s Fledgling Intelligence Services

By Nathalia Holt  September 15, 2022
African American History

How the Survivors of Slavery Used Material Objects to Preserve Intergenerational Wisdom

By Tiya Miles  September 26, 2022
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