• History

    Hip Hop

    8 Books That Define and Defy the Canon of Hip Hop Literature

    By Will Ashon  April 12, 2019
    The Holocaust

    My Jewish Grandfather, Handpicked by Hitler to Curate the Museum of Extinct Races?

    By Bram Presser  April 11, 2019
    Disappearing Archives

    When LeRoi Jones Went on
    The Merv Griffin Show

    By Harmony Holiday  April 11, 2019
    Guns

    Not-So-Good Guys with Guns: On the Origins of the NRA

    By Igor Volsky  April 10, 2019
    Civil Rights

    Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

    By Mateo Askaripour  April 10, 2019
    Reconciliation

    In the Aftermath of Civil War, a Writing Workshop Aims for Peace

    By Sarah Hoenicke  April 9, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Wrong Kind of Redemption: A Civil War That Never Ended

    By Philip Dray  April 8, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Angela Davis on Protest, 1968, and Her Old Teacher, Herbert Marcuse

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2019
    Fathers and Sons

    Édouard Louis: On the Youth My
    Father Never Really Had

    By Edouard Louis  April 2, 2019
    Dictators

    On the Putin System: How a Dictator Maintains His Power

    By Grigory Yavlinsky  April 2, 2019
    Cults

    Religious Cult, Force for Civil Rights, or Both?

    By Adam Morris  March 28, 2019
    Food Science

    A Brief History of That Most Noble Tuber, the Potato

    By Rebecca Earle  March 28, 2019
    Addiction

    Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction with Eerie Accuracy

    By Robert Bennett  March 21, 2019
    Excerpts

    How Japan Almost Lost a National Symbol to Extinction

    By Naoko Abe  March 19, 2019
    Criticism

    Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

    By Roy Christopher  March 18, 2019
    Essay

    Meet the Man Brought to Trial for Murdering the English Language

    By Emily Temple  March 18, 2019
    Archives

    Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston

    By Literary Hub  March 15, 2019
    Excerpts

    It Was All Greek to Her: With the Sappho-Obsessed in 1900s Paris

    By Artemis Leontis  March 15, 2019
    Excerpts

    Tracing the Incredible Journey of Polynesians Around the Globe

    By Christina Thompson  March 14, 2019
    Criticism

    Honoré de Balzac’s Legendary Love Affair With His Anonymous Critic

    By Emily Temple  March 14, 2019
    Excerpts

    The History of Humanity, As Revealed By Its Walls

    By Paul Crenshaw  March 14, 2019
    Essay

    On the Hidden History of Queer Women in Baseball

    By Britni de la Cretaz  March 13, 2019
    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
    Excerpts

    How the United States Became a Part of Latin America

    By Carrie Gibson  March 8, 2019
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