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Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

Daniel Heller-Roazen on Fleeting Narrators, Disappearing Text, and "The Hunter Gracchus"

By Daniel Heller-Roazen | March 26, 2021

How the US Government Created an (Almost) Exclusively White Middle Class

How the US Government Created an (Almost) Exclusively White Middle Class

Dorothy A. Brown Considers the Long History of Racism in the US Taxation System

By Dorothy A. Brown | March 25, 2021

From Jim Crow to Now: On the Realities of Traveling While Black

From Jim Crow to Now: On the Realities of Traveling While Black

Mia Bay Maps the History of Segregated Travel

By Mia Bay | March 25, 2021

What Is it About America That Generates So Much Anti-Immigrant Vitriol?

What Is it About America That Generates So Much Anti-Immigrant Vitriol?

Roya Hakakian in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 25, 2021

Frank McDonough on the Death Throes of the Third Reich

Frank McDonough on the Death Throes of the Third Reich

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | March 25, 2021

A new original draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has just been discovered.

A new original draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has just been discovered.

By Walker Caplan | March 24, 2021

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Helen Frankenthaler: From High Society to Downtown Art Scene in 1950s NYC

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Listen to a wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

By Walker Caplan | March 22, 2021

How Mark Twain Documented the Dawn of the Tourist Age

How Mark Twain Documented the Dawn of the Tourist Age

Marco d'Eramo on Innocents Abroad, the Account of an Early Transatlantic Cruise

By Marco d'Eramo | March 22, 2021

Patron Saint of the Wall Street Fraudster: Who Was <br>Charles Ponzi?

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Dan Davies on Rise and Fall of the Eponymous Schemer

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How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy

How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy

Paulina Bren on Life at New York's Most Famous Women’s-Only Hotel

By Paulina Bren | March 19, 2021

Sara Franklin on the Powerful Unsung Legacy of Edna Lewis, A Great Southern Chef

Sara Franklin on the Powerful Unsung Legacy of Edna Lewis, A Great Southern Chef

Chef Diep Tran Talks to the Editor of Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original

By Diep Tran | March 19, 2021

Thelma Golden on the Future of Harlem

Thelma Golden on the Future of Harlem

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber
on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | March 19, 2021

Harriet A. Washington on the Narrative Around Vaccine Hesitancy in the African American Community

Harriet A. Washington on the Narrative Around Vaccine Hesitancy in the African American Community

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

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Here are a few of John Updike’s kindest, most cutting literary pans.

Here are a few of John Updike’s kindest, most cutting literary pans.

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