• History

    Bandits

    The Dalton Gang’s Final, Doomed Heists in the Twilight of the Old West

    By Tom Clavin  November 10, 2023
    Excerpt

    The History of Writing is the History of Humanity

    By Walter Stephens  November 10, 2023
    Art History

    Drip Painting Was Actually Invented by a Ukrainian Grandmother… Not Jackson Pollock

    By Noah Charney  November 9, 2023
    Dictators

    Dinner With A Dictator: What Joseph Stalin Ate

    By Witold Szabłowski  November 9, 2023
    Food

    A Brief History of Onions in America

    By Mark Kurlansky  November 9, 2023
    Twins

    Is There Any Bond Stronger than Twinship?

    By Helena de Bres  November 8, 2023
    Reckonings

    How Two Versions of a Family Story Sparked a Writer’s Quest for Truth

    By Grace Elizabeth Hale  November 8, 2023
    Community

    Whose Community Is It Anyway?

    By Casey Plett  November 7, 2023
    Jane Austen

    How American Critics Originated Jane Austen Scholarship

    By Juliette Wells  November 6, 2023
    Family History

    In Search of Hidden Family History in the Late Ottoman Empire

    By Alice Sparberg Alexiou  November 6, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    On Art, Music and the Humanist Spirit in the Face of Nazi Atrocities

    By Jeremy Eichler  November 6, 2023
    World War II

    The Lifesaving Potential of Latin American Passports in the Warsaw Ghetto

    By Roger Moorhouse  November 6, 2023
    Antifascism

    Laughing At Evil: When Charlie Chaplin Brought Hitler to the Big Screen

    By Scott Eyman  November 3, 2023
    Hollywood

    How 1950s Hollywood Tried (and Failed) to Make Literary Adaptations Big

    By Foster Hirsch  November 3, 2023
    World War II

    Putting the Asian Experience of World War II at Center Stage: A Reading List of Essential Books

    By Gary J. Bass  November 2, 2023
    Palestine

    A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation

    By Fady Joudah  November 1, 2023
    Early Russian Literature

    How a 17th Century Priest Invented the Russian Novel

    By Irina Zhorov  November 1, 2023
    Dracula

    Silvia Garcia-Moreno on Dracula’s Depictions and Descendants

    By Silvia Moreno-Garcia  October 31, 2023
    Women in Science

    The Past and Present of Writing Women Out of Scientific History

    By Jan Eliasberg  October 27, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How the Cultural Revolution Played Society Against Itself

    By Tania Branigan  October 27, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    The Transcendental Genius of George Balanchine’s Ballet

    By Jennifer Homans  October 27, 2023
    Music history

    The Beatles Adventures in the Red-Light District: On George Harrison’s First Time

    By Philip Norman  October 26, 2023
    Puerto Rican Literature

    On Puerto Rican Literature and “Abyssal Exclusion”

    By Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones  October 26, 2023
    Fascism

    What Does “Fascist” Actually Mean?

    By Alberto Toscano  October 25, 2023
    Excerpt

    Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing

    By Dan Sinykin  October 24, 2023
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