• History

    Historical Fiction

    Beyond the Historical Trauma Plot: On Fictionalizing the Armenian Genocide

    Aram Mrjoian Explores the Tension Between Responsibility to History and a Writer’s Creative Vision

     
    By Aram Mrjoian  June 6, 2025
    Aviation

    Inside the First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Flight That No One Has Ever Heard Of

    By David Rooney  June 5, 2025
    Sports

    Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

    By Mark Kriegel  June 4, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

    By Maggie Stiefvater  June 4, 2025
    Queer History

    How Britain’s 1980s Anti-Gay Laws Impacted a Generation of Young LGBTQ Readers

    By Claire Lynch  June 3, 2025
    American Politics

    From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

    By Deborah Baker  June 3, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Sports History

    Chronicle of a Hard-Won Defeat: Steve Prefontaine’s Olympic Debut

    By Brendan O’Meara  June 2, 2025
    The Hub

    The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died.

    By Brittany Allen  May 29, 2025
    Violence

    Nothing is Promised: What Our Current Fragile Peace Reveals About the Forces of History

    By Askold Melnyczuk  May 29, 2025
    American Politics

    States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

    Brando Simeo Starkey on the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, Racism, and Federal Power

    By Brando Simeo Starkey  June 5, 2025
    Policing

    Saying No to Cop City: Reviving a Radical Black Liberation Movement in Atlanta and Beyond

    By Curtis Duncan  May 21, 2025
    Culinary History

    Why Are We So Obsessed With Avocados?

    By Sarah Allaback and Monique F. Parsons  May 21, 2025
    Cults

    A Question of Free Will: Inside the Final Days of Katherine Mansfield

    By Allison Buccola  May 20, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Include as Little History as You Can: The Danger of Explaining Too Much in Historical Fiction

    Jesse Browner Explores Why the Core Rules of Fiction Still Apply in Stories of the Past

    By Jesse Browner  May 20, 2025
    Philosophy

    What Spinoza’s Metaphysics Can Reveal to Us About the Creative Process

    By Madeleine Thien  May 20, 2025
    literary criticism

    L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

    By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
    History of Science

    When Bees Discover the Scientists Who Dedicated Their Lives to Studying Them

    By Peter Kuper  May 16, 2025
    Ancient History

    The Woman With the Axe: On Fu Hao, Ancient China’s Warrior Queen

    Rachel McCarthy James Examines Gender, Power and Violence in the Shang Dynasty

    By Rachel McCarthy James  May 15, 2025
    Supreme Court

    Does the Supreme Court Really Just Run on Vibes Now?

    By Leah Litman  May 15, 2025
    Prehistory

    How Language Evolved Out of Cultural Exchange Between Europe and the Near East

    By Laura Spinney  May 15, 2025
    TV Writing

    Enjoying the Sweet Stink of The Gilded Age in the Age of Billionaires

    By Danielle Teller  May 15, 2025
    The Hub

    What to read next if you loved Sinners.

    A vampire's reading list.

    By Brittany Allen  May 14, 2025
    Sexuality

    Why the World’s First Celebrity Sex Therapist Had to Flee the Nazis

    By Daniel Brook  May 14, 2025
    Apocalypses

    And If This Is(n’t) the End of the World? Why We Dread—and Desire—Apocalypse

    By Alex Foster  May 14, 2025
    Authoritarianism

    How the Brothers Grimm Became Martyrs to Academic Freedom

    By Maria Hummel  May 28, 2025
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