• History

    Medical history

    Kidneys, Twins, and Pathological Optimism: The Story of the First Successful Organ Transplant

    By Brandy Schillace  March 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Just what you never knew you always wanted: a playlist of Jane Austen’s favorite songs.

    By Walker Caplan  March 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Tennessee Williams’s first published short story. (It’s weird.)

    By Walker Caplan  March 26, 2021
    Literary History

    When Dostoevsky Hit the St. Petersburg Literary Scene

    By Alex Christofi  March 26, 2021
    Keen On

    On Francis Drake the Pirate, Queen Elizabeth I, and the Age of Empires

    By Keen On  March 26, 2021
    Literary Biographies

    How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

    By Kelsey Osgood  March 26, 2021
    Close Reading

    Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

    By Daniel Heller-Roazen  March 26, 2021
    Inequality

    How the US Government Created an (Almost) Exclusively White Middle Class

    By Dorothy A. Brown  March 25, 2021
    Black History

    From Jim Crow to Now: On the Realities of Traveling While Black

    By Mia Bay  March 25, 2021
    Keen On

    What Is it About America That Generates So Much Anti-Immigrant Vitriol?

    By Keen On  March 25, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Frank McDonough on the Death Throes of the Third Reich

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   March 25, 2021
    The Hub

    A new original draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has just been discovered.

    By Walker Caplan  March 24, 2021
    Oral Histories

    Voices of the People: 5 Books That Expand Our Ideas
    of Oral History

    By Craig Taylor  March 24, 2021
    Artists

    Helen Frankenthaler: From High Society to Downtown Art Scene in 1950s NYC

    By Alexander Nemerov  March 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to a wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

    By Walker Caplan  March 22, 2021
    Tourism

    How Mark Twain Documented the Dawn of the Tourist Age

    By Marco d'Eramo  March 22, 2021
    Crime

    Patron Saint of the Wall Street Fraudster: Who Was
    Charles Ponzi?

    By Dan Davies  March 22, 2021
    The Writing Life

    How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy

    By Paulina Bren  March 19, 2021
    Food History

    Sara Franklin on the Powerful Unsung Legacy of Edna Lewis, A Great Southern Chef

    By Diep Tran  March 19, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Thelma Golden on the Future of Harlem

    By The Quarantine Tapes  March 19, 2021
    Keen On

    Harriet A. Washington on the Narrative Around Vaccine Hesitancy in the African American Community

    By Keen On  March 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are a few of John Updike’s kindest, most cutting literary pans.

    By Walker Caplan  March 18, 2021
    The Hub

    This website turns all our collective Wikipedia editing into ambient music in real time.

    By Walker Caplan  March 18, 2021
    New York City

    How the Early Internet Helped with the “Rebirth” of New York City

    By Thomas Dyja  March 18, 2021
    Travel

    On the Undeniable Lure of the Historic Literary Home

    By Elizabeth Brooks  March 18, 2021
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