Why Did So Many Restaurants Stay Open During the 1918 Pandemic?

Why Did So Many Restaurants Stay Open During the 1918 Pandemic?

For Starters, More People Needed Places to Eat

By Rebecca Spang | May 27, 2020

Women Who Did What They Wanted: A Reading List

Women Who Did What They Wanted: A Reading List

C.W. Gortner on Fearless Figures from History

By C.W. Gortner | May 27, 2020

The Letter That Changed Emily Dickinson's Life

The Letter That Changed Emily Dickinson's Life

At a Crossroads, She Sought Another Writer's Counsel

By Martha Ackmann | May 26, 2020

History is No Longer a Circle, Nor is Progress Guaranteed

History is No Longer a Circle, Nor is Progress Guaranteed

Szczepan Twardoch on Our Need to Give Meaning to Catastrophe

By Szczepan Twardoch | May 26, 2020

When All of New York City Stopped Reading the News at Once

When All of New York City Stopped Reading the News at Once

Chronicling an Odd 17 Days in 1945

By Rob Brotherton | May 26, 2020

Here's a rare recording of Raymond Carver reading one of his best-known stories.

Here's a rare recording of Raymond Carver reading one of his best-known stories.

By Corinne Segal | May 22, 2020

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Letters of War, and the End of Youth

By Claire Messud | May 22, 2020

Lauren Francis-Sharma:
'What if the Facts Aren't the Facts at All?'

By Lauren Francis-Sharma | May 22, 2020

How the Black Press Battled Military Discrimination and Won

By Dan C. Goldberg | May 22, 2020

A murderess, a black mass, a scandalous literary salon: Welcome to Paris in 1920.

A murderess, a black mass, a scandalous literary salon: Welcome to Paris in 1920.

By Corinne Segal | May 21, 2020

On the Revisionist Histories at the Heart of Fascism and Populism

On the Revisionist Histories at the Heart of Fascism and Populism

From Perón to Trump, the Political Art of Spinning Lies Into Myth

By Federico Finchelstein | May 21, 2020

Travels with Barbie, From Tehran to Paris to New York

Travels with Barbie, From Tehran to Paris to New York

Porochista Khakpour on Loving—and Destroying—a Beloved Doll

By Porochista Khakpour | May 21, 2020

The Case of Oscar Wilde's Mistaken Identity in Naples

The Case of Oscar Wilde's Mistaken Identity in Naples

Renato Miracco on a Scandalized Italian Public

By Renato Miracco | May 21, 2020

Great Plagues Always Hit Workers the Hardest

Great Plagues Always Hit Workers the Hardest

Michael Robinson on Daniel Defoe's Fictional Account
of the London Plague

By Michael Robinson | May 20, 2020

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Edmund White on Curzio Malaparte's Oblong Visions of the World

By Edmund White | May 20, 2020

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

On Mabel Stark, a Big Cat Trainer Ahead of Her Time

By Robert Hough | May 20, 2020

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