History

Literary History

The Publisher Who Transformed the Careers of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams

Alan M. Klein on the Mystery of Ronald Lane Latimer

 
By Alan M. Klein  March 5, 2021
Women's History

The Long Silencing of Women in Science Continues Today

By Olivia Campbell  March 5, 2021
Indigenous Lit

You Need to Read These Writers to Understand Native American Comedy

By Kliph Nesteroff  March 5, 2021
African American History

How Ida B. Wells Brought the Truth About Lynching to National Attention

By Alex Tresniowski  March 5, 2021
Climate Crisis

Beasts, Bears, Seeds, and Spring: Your Climate Readings
for March

By Amy Brady  March 4, 2021
The Hub

A breakthrough technology allows researchers to see inside sealed centuries-old letters.

By Walker Caplan  March 3, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Hub

D.H. Lawrence was the king of innuendo—but wouldn’t admit it.

By Walker Caplan  March 2, 2021
Civil Rights

The Story of Pan Am’s First
Black Stewardesses

By Julia Cooke  March 2, 2021
Politics

When Fiction Bears Witness to a Crime Against Humanity

By Kim Echlin  March 1, 2021
New in Nonfiction

New and Noteworthy Nonfiction to Read This March

Remaking the World, Remembering Black Excellence, Wandering Mexico City, and More

By Literary Hub  March 5, 2021
The Hub

When Tennessee Williams was 16, he won a writing contest by pretending to be a disgruntled divorcee.

By Walker Caplan  February 25, 2021
The Hub

Samuel Beckett’s insane wordless post-Nobel Prize “interview” is the most Samuel Beckett thing ever.

By Walker Caplan  February 25, 2021
End Times

The Dark World of
Rapture Fiction

By William J. Bernstein  February 25, 2021
The Longest Year: 2020+

Dreamscape NYC: Documenting the Protests and Pandemics of 2020

Introducing The Longest Year: 2020+, Photo Essays From the Year That Won't End

By Rachel Cobb and Elissa Schappell  February 25, 2021
Trees

Finding Communion With One of England’s Ancient Oak Trees

By James Canton  February 25, 2021
Keen On

It Only Sucks to Be a Cog in the Machine When the Machine
Is Capitalism

By Keen On  February 25, 2021
Syrian War

In Saraqeb, Syria, the Horror of a Poison-Gas Attack, and a Race to Preserve the Evidence

By Joby Warrick  February 25, 2021
We Have Ways of Making You Talk

The Women Who Won the Battle of the Atlantic (and Thus the War)

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   February 25, 2021
Music history

The Woman Who Preserved Zora Neale Hurston’s Musical Legacy

By Daphne A. Brooks  February 24, 2021
Keen On

The Problem of Using Absurdity to Depict Tyrants

By Keen On  February 24, 2021
Politics

On the 50-Year Fight to Preserve the Navajo Homeland

By David Roberts  February 23, 2021
Journalism

Meet the Three Women Who Changed the Face of War Reportage

Elizabeth Becker on the Groundbreaking Impact of Kate Webb, Catherine Leroy, and Frances FitzGerald

By Elizabeth Becker  February 23, 2021
Enlightenment

Did Novels of the Enlightenment Teach Empathy?

By Ritchie Robertson  February 23, 2021
Keen On

How Protestantism (Unintentionally) Spread Literacy

By Keen On  February 23, 2021
In Memoriam

Thank You, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

By Alysia Abbott  February 26, 2021
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