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    What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

    Peter Balakian on Richard Hofstadter and the Current Assault on Academia

     
    By Peter Balakian  July 9, 2025
    Literary History

    Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?

    By Sam Kelly  July 8, 2025
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    American History

    On America’s First Highway: Preparing For a Trip Along the Great Wagon Road

    By James Dodson  July 7, 2025
    Black Arts

    How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

    By Lauren O'Neill Butler  July 2, 2025
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    Language

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    By David Crystal  June 27, 2025
    Literary History

    Judge, Critic, Saloniére: On Sylvia Lynd, One of the Great Literary Citizens of the 20th Century

    By Nicola Wilson  June 26, 2025
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    By Brittany Allen  July 8, 2025
    Food Writing

    How Amaranth Influenced Indigenous Culture and Cooking in the American Southwest

    By Michael Shaikh  June 25, 2025
    The Hub

    This is how over 40% of NYC bookstores became unionized.

    By James Folta  June 24, 2025
    Law

    Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

    By Aron Solomon  June 24, 2025
    Hollywood

    Sodom and Gomorrah on Celluloid: How the Hays Code Took the Sex Out of Hollywood

    Michael Koresky on the Influence of Catholic Moralism in the Early Days of American Film

    By Michael Koresky  June 24, 2025
    Gun violence

    It Happened Here: Remembering One of America’s First Modern School Shootings, 50 Years Later

    By Sally Ventura  June 23, 2025
    Fascism

    The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

    By Ed Simon  June 23, 2025
    Icons

    How Edna Lewis Exemplified the Ethos of Queerness Throughout Her Life

    By John Birdsall  June 20, 2025
    Indian Literature

    Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

    Radha Vatsal on the Contemporary Echoes of Her Ancestor’s Groundbreaking 19th-Century Novel

    By Radha Vatsal  June 20, 2025
    Forgeries

    How a “Centuries-Old” Carpet Duped Art Dealers and Curators For Decades

    By Dorothy Armstrong  June 18, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Interdisciplinary Magic: What the Humanities Can Reveal About Scientific Pursuits

    By Robert P. Baird  June 16, 2025
    Medieval History

    How Medieval Monks and Scribes Helped Preserve Classical Culture

    By Bernd Roeck  June 16, 2025
    Patriarchy

    Power, Motherhood and Murder: On the Life and Death of Agrippina the Younger

    Diana Arterian Explores the All-Consuming Ancient Obsession Behind Her Latest Poetry Collection

    By Diana Arterian  June 16, 2025
    Prehistory

    How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era

    By Merijn van de Laar  June 13, 2025
    Overlooked Women

    Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s Iliad

    By Emily Hauser  June 13, 2025
    Wrestling

    “Shakespeare in a Ring.” Hulk Hogan and the Rise of Pro Wrestling in the American Psyche

    By Marc Raimondi  June 25, 2025
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