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“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

Julie Phillips Considers the Groundbreaking British Mother-Writers of the 1960s, from A.S. Byatt to Lorna Sage

By Julie Phillips | April 26, 2022

Has the Second World War Ended Yet?

Has the Second World War Ended Yet?

Richard Overy in Conversation With Andrew Keen

By Keen On | April 26, 2022

On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

Katie Bennett Measures the Emotional Toll of Writing a Feminist Recovery Story

By Katie Bennett | April 25, 2022

Ten Books to Help Understand the Conflicts in South Sudan and Ethiopia

Ten Books to Help Understand the Conflicts in South Sudan and Ethiopia

Caroline Kurtz Recommends Maaza Mengiste, Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Dinaw Mengestu, and More

By Caroline Kurtz | April 25, 2022

How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

Richard Cohen on the Enduring Influence of One of Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Historians

By Richard Cohen | April 22, 2022

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

For Robert Leleux Finding the One Family More Messed Up Than His Own Was a Life-Saver

By Robert Leleux | April 22, 2022

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When Superpowers Lose Their Power, the Chaos of War Follows

By Andrew Keen | April 22, 2022

Twenty Questions on the War in Ukraine

By Open Source | April 22, 2022

The Erased Lives of Enslaved Women Forced to Have the Children of Their Enslavers

By Kristen Green | April 22, 2022

Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

Paul Fischer’s on a Dark Corner of Motion Picture Lore

By Paul Fischer | April 22, 2022

In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power

In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power

David de Jong on Hermann Göring’s Meeting with Some of Nazi Germany's Wealthiest Businessmen

By David de Jong | April 22, 2022

Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

“Our hopes have been cauterized, our imaginations infected.”

By Arundhati Roy | April 21, 2022

How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

Dominic Green on the Legacies of Whitman, Thoreau, Tyndale, and More

By Dominic Green | April 21, 2022

Why This Era of Global Change Demands New Language

Why This Era of Global Change Demands New Language

Audrey Schulman on the Limits of Scientific Terminology

By Audrey Schulman | April 21, 2022

On the Absolute Pleasure of British Historical Reality TV Shows

On the Absolute Pleasure of British Historical Reality TV Shows

Colleen Hubbard Couldn’t Have Written Her Novel Without the BBC’s Historic Farm Series

By Colleen Hubbard | April 21, 2022

Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

Taylor Brown on Looking to the Past (Which Isn't Even Past)

By Taylor Brown | April 21, 2022

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