Take a look at Black Work Broadway, the project cataloguing every Broadway performance written by Black artists.

Take a look at Black Work Broadway, the project cataloguing every Broadway performance written by Black artists.

By Walker Caplan | March 11, 2021

A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Harmony Holiday on the Public-Private Tensions of Black Life in America

By Harmony Holiday | March 11, 2021

WTF, Texas? Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas

WTF, Texas? Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell
on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 11, 2021

Why We Prefer Our War Stories Simple

Why We Prefer Our War Stories Simple

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | March 11, 2021

Apparently John Steinbeck once wrote a horror story about a boy being chewed by his own gum.

Apparently John Steinbeck once wrote a horror story about a boy being chewed by his own gum.

By Walker Caplan | March 10, 2021

Growing Up in the Shadow of Birmingham’s Racist Violence

Growing Up in the Shadow of Birmingham’s Racist Violence

John Archibald on Living with the Domestic Terror of 1960s “Bombingham”

By John Archibald | March 10, 2021

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How Virginia Woolf’s Time-Traveling Androgynous Hero Became Shorthand for Fashion’s Genderless Future 

By Sophie Wilson | March 9, 2021

When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious

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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Island on Fire by Tom Zoellner

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Read the newly announced inscription for the Barack Obama Presidential Library.

Read the newly announced inscription for the Barack Obama Presidential Library.

By Walker Caplan | March 8, 2021

Writing at the Edges of Holocaust Kitsch

Writing at the Edges of Holocaust Kitsch

Leora Fridman on Takis Würger’s Controversial Novel, Stella

By Leora Fridman | March 8, 2021

Modern Parents Could Learn a Lot From Hunter-Gatherer Families

Modern Parents Could Learn a Lot From Hunter-Gatherer Families

Michaeleen Doucleff on Childcare Throughout Human History

By Michaeleen Doucleff | March 8, 2021

The Publisher Who Transformed the Careers of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams

The Publisher Who Transformed the Careers of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams

Alan M. Klein on the Mystery of Ronald Lane Latimer

By Alan M. Klein | March 5, 2021

New and Noteworthy Nonfiction to Read This March

New and Noteworthy Nonfiction to Read This March

Remaking the World, Remembering Black Excellence, Wandering Mexico City, and More

By Literary Hub | March 5, 2021

The Long Silencing of Women in Science Continues Today

The Long Silencing of Women in Science Continues Today

Olivia Campbell on the Unremembered and Underappreciated

By Olivia Campbell | March 5, 2021

You Need to Read These Writers to Understand Native American Comedy

You Need to Read These Writers to Understand Native American Comedy

Kliph Nesteroff Recommends Ben Yagoda, Arthur Manuel, and More

By Kliph Nesteroff | March 5, 2021

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