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From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

Emma Seckel on the Weightiness of History and the Vastness of Landscape

By Emma Seckel | August 3, 2022

Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development

Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development

Stefan Dercon in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 2, 2022

How Does Human History Blur into the Nonhuman World?

How Does Human History Blur into the Nonhuman World?

Daisy Hildyard on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | August 1, 2022

What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 1, 2022

Naw thep’thay’gaw: On Telling a Multicultural Indigenous Story

Naw thep’thay’gaw: On Telling a Multicultural Indigenous Story

Oscar Hokeah’s Chronicle of Kiowa and Cherokee Life

By Oscar Hokeah | July 28, 2022

Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

Eve Fairbanks Recommends Claudia Rankine, Svetlana Alexeivich, and More

By Eve Fairbanks | July 28, 2022

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What Made the Japanese Admirals Think Attacking Pearl Harbor Was a Good Idea?

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | July 28, 2022

Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust

By Just the Right Book | July 28, 2022

“She’s making history / working for victory.” The Women Mathematicians Who Joined the War Effort

By Kathy Kleiman | July 27, 2022

On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

Jerry W. Carlson Deconstructs The Flanders Road

By Jerry W. Carlson | July 27, 2022

How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

Sofia Ali-Khan on the Brutal Legacy of the United States’s Westward Expansion

By Sofia Ali-Khan | July 27, 2022

How Pollsters Got the 2016 Election So Wrong, And What They Learned From Their Mistakes

How Pollsters Got the 2016 Election So Wrong, And What They Learned From Their Mistakes

G. Elliott Morris on the Enduring Gulf Between Electoral Predictions and Reality

By G. Elliott Morris | July 27, 2022

Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

By Jonny Diamond | July 26, 2022

On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History

On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History

Satya Doyle Byock Considers the Perennial Preoccupations of One’s Midtwenties

By Satya Doyle Byock | July 26, 2022

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

On the Author of the Most Widely Denounced Novel Published Before World War I

By Hilary A. Hallett | July 26, 2022

How ISIS Filled the Power Vacuum Left By US Forces In Iraq

How ISIS Filled the Power Vacuum Left By US Forces In Iraq

Michael R. Gordon on the Origins of America’s War Against the Islamic State

By Michael R. Gordon | July 26, 2022

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