Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

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Aron Solomon Looks at American Law Through a Jazz Age Lens 

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Sodom and Gomorrah on Celluloid: How the Hays Code Took the Sex Out of Hollywood

Sodom and Gomorrah on Celluloid: How the Hays Code Took the Sex Out of Hollywood

Michael Koresky on the Influence of Catholic Moralism in the Early Days of American Film

By Michael Koresky | June 24, 2025

It Happened Here: Remembering One of America’s First Modern School Shootings, 50 Years Later

It Happened Here: Remembering One of America’s First Modern School Shootings, 50 Years Later

Sally Ventura Tells the Story of 1974’s Olean, New York High School Murders

By Sally Ventura | June 23, 2025

The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

Ed Simon Looks at Eduard Limonov, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Yukio Mishima, and Others

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How Edna Lewis Exemplified the Ethos of Queerness Throughout Her Life

How Edna Lewis Exemplified the Ethos of Queerness Throughout Her Life

John Birdsall on the Unconventional, Trailblazing Existence of an Icon of Southern Cooking

By John Birdsall | June 20, 2025

Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

Radha Vatsal on the Contemporary Echoes of Her Ancestor’s Groundbreaking 19th-Century Novel

By Radha Vatsal | June 20, 2025

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How Exactly <em>Did</em> Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era

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Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s <em>Iliad</em>

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Emily Hauser Explores Ancient Greek Visions of Gender

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Taking Up Space: Relationships as Sites of Social Transformation

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What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche

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Matthew Gavin Frank Explores the Dark Side of Our Desire to Explore the Ocean’s Depths

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Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

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To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

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