• History

    Excerpts

    Brooklyn’s Earliest, Secret Enclaves of Queer Life

    By Hugh Ryan  March 13, 2019
    Excerpts

    The Time I Met New York’s Patron Saint of Typewriters

    By Thaisa Frank  March 12, 2019
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    How the United States Became a Part of Latin America

    By Carrie Gibson  March 8, 2019
    Archives

    From Shakespeare to Tolkien, Treasures from the NYC Antiquarian Book Fair

    By Sarah Funke Butler  March 8, 2019
    Essay

    Virginia Woolf’s Depression Shouldn’t Define Her

    By Maggie Gee  March 6, 2019
    Excerpts

    Dictators Kill Poets: On Federico García Lorca’s Last Days

    By Aaron Shulman  March 5, 2019
    Literary History

    If de Tocqueville Predicted Twitter, Balzac Knew Trump Would Use It

    By Liesl Schillinger  February 26, 2019
    Essay

    The Black Women Who Wrote America’s Earliest Autofiction

    By Maryam Kazeem  February 25, 2019
    Excerpts

    The Forgotten Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii

    By Duncan Ryūken Williams  February 25, 2019
    Deep Dive

    When the Highest Paid Hollywood Director Was a Woman

    By Sasha Archibald  February 21, 2019
    Excerpts

    Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

    By Daniel Immerwahr  February 20, 2019
    Essay

    Finding Cherokee America: Deciphering My Convoluted Family History

    By Margaret Verble  February 19, 2019
    Excerpts

    What Eight Missing Manuscript Pages Can Tell Us About a 20th-Century Genocide

    By Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh  February 15, 2019
    Excerpts

    What Does It Mean to Call an Idea American?

    By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen  February 14, 2019
    Essay

    High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

    By Michael Ursell  February 13, 2019
    Excerpts

    Beneath the Streets of Paris, in Search of the Cataphiles

    By Will Hunt  February 12, 2019
    Excerpts

    How Did So Many Writers Get Access to Opiates?

    By Lucy Inglis  February 5, 2019
    Deep Dive

    Poet, Artist, Erotic Muse of Mexico’s Avant Garde: Rediscovering Nahui Olin

    By Claire Mullen  February 1, 2019
    Excerpts

    The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

    By Stephen Koch  January 31, 2019
    Essay

    A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

    By Stephen Benz  January 30, 2019
    Excerpts

    Recipes and Wisdom from the Late, Great Ntozake Shange

    By Ntozake Shange  January 29, 2019
    Essay

    Writing Absurdity in Zimbabwe’s Contemporary Dystopia

    By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma  January 29, 2019
    Essay

    What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

    By Emily Temple  January 25, 2019
    Essay

    My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald

    By Mark Mayer  January 25, 2019
    Essay

    A Brief Literary History of Davos

    By Isabelle Mayault  January 24, 2019
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