• History

    Excerpts

    A Holy Terror, A Common Scold, and the First Feminist Blogger

    By Jeff Biggers  November 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

    By Christopher Grobe  November 9, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Ugandan Reporter Shedding Light on the Lives of Missing Children

    By Jessica Yu  November 8, 2017
    Biography

    The Women Who Shaped Vladimir Lenin

    By Victor Sebestyen  November 7, 2017
    Essay

    How Lord Byron Invented the Wild Horse

    By Susanna Forrest   November 3, 2017
    Excerpts

    Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization

    By Martin Puchner  November 2, 2017
    Politics

    10 Must-Read Histories of the Palestine-Israel Conflict

    By Ian Black  November 2, 2017
    Excerpts

    Muhammad Ali, Author of “The Greatest Book of All Time”?

    By Jonathan Eig  November 1, 2017
    Excerpts

    Literary Witches, From Angela Carter to Zora Neale Hurston

    By Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan  October 31, 2017
    Excerpts

    Against the “Melting Pot” Metaphor

    By Mike Wallace  October 30, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Secret Literary History of Some of Your Favorite Colors

    By Kassia St. Clair  October 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    Uncovering the History of Slavery in Detroit

    By Tiya Miles  October 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Enslaved Man Who Escaped George Washington—Twice

    By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  October 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    A Pilgrimage to the World’s Most Famous Manuscript

    By Christopher de Hamel  October 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    When the French Invaded Hanoi, My Brothers Stayed Behind

    By Mai Elliott  October 20, 2017
    Essay

    Jennifer Egan Makes Friends Across Seven Decades (and Countless Letters)

    By Jennifer Egan  October 19, 2017
    Excerpts

    On the Literary Wheelings and Dealings of Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain

    By Ron Chernow  October 17, 2017
    Biography

    Mark Twain, Cocaine Kingpin?

    By Alan Pell Crawford  October 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    How a History of Two Pet Chameleons Made a Case for the Animal Soul

    By Peter Sahlins  October 6, 2017
    Did you know?

    10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)

    By Emily Temple  October 4, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Mess We’re In: On the Inevitability of Post-Cold War Chaos

    By Odd Arne Westad  September 28, 2017
    History

    Returning Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to the Skies

    By Douglas R. Dechow and Anna Leahy  September 26, 2017
    Excerpts

    Speaking Truth to Power is as American as Apple Pie

    By Marcus Rediker  September 26, 2017
    Excerpts

    Beyond Heroes and Villains: A Deeper Look at the 19th-Century Indian Wars

    By Peter Cozzens  September 21, 2017
    Excerpts

    When Chicago Was the Real Literary Capital of the United States

    By Liesl Olson  September 18, 2017
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