• History

    Philosophy

    How Come We Don’t Have a Philosophy of Wigs?

    By Luigi Amara  November 24, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Arctic Fever and the Creation of the Hyper-Masculine Explorer

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   November 24, 2020
    Literary History

    When Adrienne Rich Refused The National Book Award

    By Hilary Holladay  November 23, 2020
    Music history

    Like Jazz, Bowling, and Old Hollywood Hairdos?
    Thank Insects.

    By Edward D. Melillo  November 23, 2020
    Keen On

    This Isn’t an Election Crisis—It’s a Crisis of Trump

    By Keen On  November 23, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Madness of Majesty of America’s Last King

    By New Books Network  November 23, 2020
    Languages

    The Language Police Were Terrifyingly Real. My Grandfather Was One.

    By Martin Puchner  November 20, 2020
    Indigenous Voices

    The Writer Who Uncovered Crimes Against His Native Ancestors

    By David Grann  November 20, 2020
    Healing

    The Book That Marked the Beginning of My
    New Sense of Self

    By Veronica Esposito  November 20, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

    By New Books Network  November 20, 2020
    New Books Network

    Contextualizing the Rollback of Human Rights in Hong Kong

    By New Books Network  November 20, 2020
    On Race

    Read Walter Mosley’s Incredible Speech From Last Night’s National Book Awards

    By Walter Mosley  November 19, 2020
    Spirituality

    Why Harry Houdini DID NOT Like Arthur Conan Doyle

    By Chris Gosden  November 19, 2020
    Cities

    Illegal Land Grabs, Class Divides, and the Orderly Chaos of Karachi

    By Declan Walsh  November 19, 2020
    Voting

    The Lasting Legacies of Voter Suppression and
    the Electoral Fix

    By Emmanuel Acho  November 19, 2020
    Art

    The Guerrilla Girls’ Code of Ethics for Art Museums

    By The Guerrilla Girls   November 19, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On War Remembrance as a Form of Protest

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   November 19, 2020
    Democracy

    Dubravka Ugrešić: What Does Democracy Mean in
    the 21st Century?

    By Dubravka Ugresic  November 18, 2020
    Thanksgiving

    Towards a New Idea of
    Giving Thanks

    By Denise Kiernan  November 18, 2020
    Keen On

    On Trump’s Attempted Assassination of Democracy

    By Keen On  November 18, 2020
    Craft

    A ‘How to Write’ Craft Syllabus From Non-White, Non-Cis Writers

    By Alex Lockwood  November 18, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Scientists Used Demons to Test the Laws of Nature

    By New Books Network  November 18, 2020
    American Presidents

    Recent History: Lessons From Obama, Both Cautionary
    and Hopeful

    By Jonathan Reiber  November 17, 2020
    Black Lives Matter

    The Living Literature of Street Protest

    By Brianna Zimmerman  November 17, 2020
    World War II

    The Mysterious Celebrity Miracle Worker of Postwar Germany

    By Monica Black  November 17, 2020
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