• History

    Manuscripts

    “Is That a First Edition of The Iliad?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

    On Constantine Simonides, a Mysterious Stranger in the Cotswolds...

     
    By Christopher de Hamel  November 30, 2023
    Excerpt

    Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

    By Michel Faber  November 29, 2023
    Literary History

    Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets’ Brawl of ‘68

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 29, 2023
    Women's History

    Why We Need a Women’s History of the Roman Empire

    By Emma Southon  November 28, 2023
    Archeology

    Material World: What Prehistoric Possessions Tell Us About Ourselves

    By Chip Colwell  November 28, 2023
    Literary History

    When Publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald is the Family Business

    By Charles Scribner III  November 28, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Booksellers

    From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books

    By Literary Hub  November 28, 2023
    Urbanism

    How a Lawyer, a Businessman, and the Mafia Destroyed Public Transit in the Twin Cities

    By Jake Berman  November 27, 2023
    Jewish History

    The Horrific Factory Fire That Killed Jewish Immigrants and Forced the Garment Industry to Alter Its Practices

    By Steven Ujifusa  November 27, 2023
    Music history

    How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

    Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill on the Fraught Yet Successful Partnership of Two Industry Titans

    By Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill  November 30, 2023
    Chinese Food

    The Marvels of Qu: What Makes Chinese Food and Drink Unique

    By Fuchsia Dunlop  November 21, 2023
    What to Watch

    How the Publicity Campaign for Killers of the Flower Moon Recalls Rosebud Yellow Robe’s 1950 Hollywood Tour

    By Paul Morton  November 20, 2023
    Design

    The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

    By Robert von Goeben  November 20, 2023
    Ireland

    A Cartogropher’s Glorious Paean to the Landscape of Connemara

    Tim Robinson on the Lore of Sea and Shore in Ireland

    By Tim Robinson  November 17, 2023
    Black Feminism

    How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art

    By Courtney Thorsson  November 17, 2023
    Criminal Justice

    How the NYPD Attempted to Navigate Cultural and Linguistic Barriers in the Early 20th Century

    By Matthew Guariglia  November 17, 2023
    Geniuses

    Not Everyone Agreed with Albert Einstein—Including Children, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg

    By Samuel Graydon  November 16, 2023
    Jewish Literature

    How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

    David Stromberg on the Artistic Vision of the Polish-Born American Nobel Laureate

    By David Stromberg  November 16, 2023
    In Conversation

    Jenny Erpenbeck on Spying, Lying, and Eros

    By Ellen Adams  November 15, 2023
    Archives

    Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

    By Katherine Churchill  November 15, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    1848: Europe’s Year of Revolt and Revolution

    By Christopher Clark  November 15, 2023
    Willa Cather

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine in Praise of Willa Cather and the American Southwest

    On Death Comes for the Archbishop and Literary Neighbors

    By Kali Fajardo-Anstine  November 14, 2023
    Palestine

    40 Books to Understand Palestine

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2023
    Roundtable

    Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    American History

    How a Mutiny on the Somers Changed America

    By Richard Snow  November 21, 2023
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