• History

    Lit Century

    On Cheaper by the Dozen, the Duggars, and Our Obsession with Clans

    By Lit Century   November 17, 2020
    On Race

    On California’s Eugenicist Past

    By Jane Dailey  November 17, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    On the Mission to Keep a Cold War Relic Afloat

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   November 17, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    On the Soviet Attempt to ‘Tame’ the Tundra, the Native Chukchi People, and Their Reindeer

    By Emergence Magazine  November 16, 2020
    Poets

    The Lost Digital Poems (and Erotica) of William H. Dickey

    By Matthew Kirschenbaum  November 16, 2020
    2020 Election

    The Ghosts of the Trump Presidency Will Linger Longer Than We Think

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 13, 2020
    La Belle Epoque

    When New Money Meets Old Bloodlines: On America’s Gilded Age Dollar Princesses

    By Caroline Weber  November 13, 2020
    Diaries

    The Diaries of Imre Kertész: On Power, Revolution, and Futurity

    By Imre Kertész and Tim Wilkinson  November 13, 2020
    Cats

    In Which a Cat Narrates Feline History in the Age of European Conquest

    By Paul Koudounaris  November 13, 2020
    Change Lab

    Cedric Johnson on Thinking Historically About Racial Justice and the Policing Crisis

    By Change Lab  November 13, 2020
    Liberalism

    True Liberalism Wants to Slay Thomas Hobbes’s Monster

    By Deirdre McCloskey and Art Carden  November 13, 2020
    Dictators

    The Fall of Trump: On Presidents, Dictators, and Life After a Regime

    By Francisco Goldman  November 12, 2020
    Material History

    A Toy, a Tool, a Piece of Art: Sarah Haas on What a Book Can Be

    By Sarah Haas  November 12, 2020
    Feminism

    On George Eliot’s Uncertain Relationship to Feminism

    By Kathy O'Shaughnessy  November 12, 2020
    World War II

    The Women Who Resisted the Nazis in Britain’s Channel Islands

    By Jeffrey H. Jackson  November 12, 2020
    Cities

    Gotham, Metropolis, Shanghai, Warsaw: On the Anxieties of Cities

    By Ben Wilson  November 12, 2020
    Translation

    How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian
    Epic to Life

    By Tiina Nunnally  November 12, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Alex Vitale on the Visionary Message of “Defund the Police”

    By The Quarantine Tapes  November 12, 2020
    New Books Network

    How the Quest for Space Endangers Earth

    By New Books Network  November 12, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Dr. Edie Has Some Thoughts
    on Survival

    By Just the Right Book   November 12, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Al Murray Reads from The Last 100 Years (Give or Take) and All That

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   November 12, 2020
    Travel

    When Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder Roamed the Pacific Northwest

    By Allen Ginsberg  November 11, 2020
    Keen On

    On the Deep Ties Between Slavery and Wall Street

    By Keen On  November 11, 2020
    New Books Network

    On Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America

    By New Books Network  November 11, 2020
    TV

    Alex Trebek’s Life in
    Three Timelines

    By Claire McNear  November 10, 2020
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