• History

    On Race

    White Supremacy Has Always Been More Powerful Than Its Loudest Proponents

    By Literary Hub  November 2, 2020
    Underreported

    Masha Gessen on the Role of Memory After State-Sponsored Atrocity

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  November 2, 2020
    Liberalism

    Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

    By Pankaj Mishra  November 2, 2020
    New Books Network

    Conservatism is Always Evolving

    By New Books Network  November 2, 2020
    Halloween

    A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

    By Roy A. Meals, MD  October 30, 2020
    The Hub

    When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

    By Corinne Segal  October 29, 2020
    Biography

    A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

    By Emily Van Duyne  October 29, 2020
    Keen On

    How New York’s Leaders Enabled Trump All the Way to the Presidency

    By Keen On  October 29, 2020
    Migrations

    Please Don’t Feed the Gringos: The US-Mexico Divide

    By Claudio Lomnitz  October 29, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Why So Few Messerschmitt 109s Survived WWII

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 29, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    On the Great Cairo Fire of 1952

    By Amin Maalouf  October 29, 2020
    The Writing Life

    What Passes For Love: On the Marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf

    By Beth Kephart  October 28, 2020
    Poets

    Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

    By Douglas Crase  October 28, 2020
    Lit Century

    On the Fine Line Between Antagonist and Love Interest in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    By Lit Century   October 28, 2020
    Otherppl

    Jared Yates Sexton on the American Mythologies That Created Donald Trump

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 28, 2020
    2020 Election

    Noam Chomsky on the President, the Pandemic, and the Upcoming Election

    By David Barsamian  October 27, 2020
    The Cold War

    What We Still Don’t Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis

    By Martin J. Sherwin  October 27, 2020
    Journalism

    The Imperious Magnate Who Built a Magazine Empire

    By Stephen Bates  October 27, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, October Edition

    By Book Marks  October 27, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    How Early Climbers Explained the Mystery of Altitude Sickness

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   October 27, 2020
    Supreme Court Nomination

    Does Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination Violate the Religious Test Clause of the Constitution?

    By Michael Rips  October 26, 2020
    Philosophy

    Michiko Kakutani on
    Why We Love Books

    By Michiko Kakutani  October 26, 2020
    Labor

    The Fight for Better Living and Working Conditions for Latinx Farmworkers in the US

    By Paola Ramos  October 26, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Fan Letters of Simone de Beauvoir

    By New Books Network  October 26, 2020
    Nature Writing

    Sylvia Plath… Nature Writer?

    By Marlena Williams  October 23, 2020
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