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Centuries Before <em>Fifty Shades</em>, A Runaway Hit About Kinky Sex

Centuries Before Fifty Shades, A Runaway Hit About Kinky Sex

Leigh Cowart on the Success of Sadomasochistic Books from 1800s Russia to the Present

By Leigh Cowart | September 24, 2021

Climate Change is Here... So How Do We Adapt?

Climate Change is Here... So How Do We Adapt?

Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani Look to the Past for Global and Local Solutions

By Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani | September 24, 2021

P. Djèlí Clark on Imagining an Anti-Colonial 1900s Cairo

P. Djèlí Clark on Imagining an Anti-Colonial 1900s Cairo

In Conversation with Gabrielle Mathieu on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | September 24, 2021

How Can We Recapture the Ambition and Hope of the Space-Race Days?

How Can We Recapture the Ambition and Hope of the Space-Race Days?

Mariana Mazzucato Guests on the Radio Open Source Podcast

By Open Source | September 24, 2021

On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette

On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette

Nancy Goldstone Recounts the Freedom of Life Before Marriage to Louis XVI

By Nancy Goldstone | September 23, 2021

Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 23, 2021

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On the End of Debutante “Presentation Parties” at Buckingham Palace

By Adrian Tinniswood | September 23, 2021

Sathnam Sanghera on Modern Britain’s Imperialistic Foundations

By Keen On | September 23, 2021

Napoleon by Ruth Scurr, read by Tanya Cubric

By Behind the Mic | September 23, 2021

Séan Scullion on the Spanish Volunteers that Fought with the British Army During the Second World War

Séan Scullion on the Spanish Volunteers that Fought with the British Army During the Second World War

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | September 23, 2021

“Paris is Paris. There is But One.” On Van Gogh’s Painterly Relationship to France

“Paris is Paris. There is But One.” On Van Gogh’s Painterly Relationship to France

Gloria Fossi Shares Settings Where the Painter Made His Mark

By Gloria Fossi | September 22, 2021

Read Kay Ryan’s hilarious, lacerating first-person reporting on AWP.

Read Kay Ryan’s hilarious, lacerating first-person reporting on AWP.

By Walker Caplan | September 21, 2021

On the Difficulty of Remaining Anonymous When You’re the First President of the United States

On the Difficulty of Remaining Anonymous When You’re the First President of the United States

Nathaniel Philbrick Follows in the Footsteps of George Washington on Western Long Island

By Nathaniel Philbrick | September 20, 2021

Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

David Rieff on the Novelist Aleksandar Tišma, Whose Writing Was an Antidote to Banality and Kitsch

By David Rieff | September 20, 2021

What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State

What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State

Aruni Kashyap Finds Defiance and Potential in Tradition of the Testimonio

By Aruni Kashyap | September 20, 2021

Telling the Real Story Behind the AIDS Panic in a Small Florida Town

Telling the Real Story Behind the AIDS Panic in a Small Florida Town

Steven Reigns on the Case of Dentist David Acer

By Steven Reigns | September 20, 2021

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