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Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

Examining the Intellectual Life of Alexander Herzen

By Pankaj Mishra | November 2, 2020

Conservatism is Always Evolving

Conservatism is Always Evolving

Edmund Fawcett on the Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast

By New Books Network | November 2, 2020

A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

Roy A. Meals, Bone Expert, Has the Skinny

By Roy A. Meals, MD | October 30, 2020

When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

By Corinne Segal | October 29, 2020

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

Emily Van Duyne on Heather Clark's Red Comet

By Emily Van Duyne | October 29, 2020

How New York's Leaders Enabled Trump All the Way to the Presidency

How New York's Leaders Enabled Trump All the Way to the Presidency

Eileen Markey in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 29, 2020

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Please Don't Feed the Gringos: The US-Mexico Divide

By Claudio Lomnitz | October 29, 2020

Why So Few Messerschmitt 109s Survived WWII

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | October 29, 2020

On the Great Cairo Fire of 1952

By Amin Maalouf | October 29, 2020

What Passes For Love: On the Marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf

What Passes For Love: On the Marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf

Beth Kephart: Most Writers Could Use an In-House Editor, Business Partner, and Legacy Builder

By Beth Kephart | October 28, 2020

Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

Douglas Crase Remembers Precious Time Spent with a Great Poet

By Douglas Crase | October 28, 2020

On the Fine Line Between Antagonist and Love Interest in Nella Larsen's <em>Passing</em>

On the Fine Line Between Antagonist and Love Interest in Nella Larsen's Passing

Megan Abbott Talks to Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | October 28, 2020

Jared Yates Sexton on the American Mythologies That Created Donald Trump

Jared Yates Sexton on the American Mythologies That Created Donald Trump

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | October 28, 2020

Noam Chomsky on the President, the Pandemic, and the Upcoming Election

Noam Chomsky on the President, the Pandemic, and the Upcoming Election

In Conversation with David Barsamian

By David Barsamian | October 27, 2020

What We Still Don't Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis

What We Still Don't Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis

Martin J. Sherwin on the Questions that Remain

By Martin J. Sherwin | October 27, 2020

The Imperious Magnate Who Built a Magazine Empire

The Imperious Magnate Who Built a Magazine Empire

Stephen Bates on Henry Robinson Luce

By Stephen Bates | October 27, 2020

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