The Safe Havens and No-Go Zones for 20th-Century Black American Travelers

The Safe Havens and No-Go Zones for 20th-Century Black American Travelers

Candacy Taylor Plots the Uncertain Journeys Along Route 66

By Candacy Taylor | January 8, 2020

Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

The Author of Ghost Wall in Conversation with Reading Women's Kendra Winchester

By Reading Women | January 8, 2020

On the Short Stories That Inspired a Russian Czar to Free the Serfs

On the Short Stories That Inspired a Russian Czar to Free the Serfs

How the Fiction of Ivan Turgenev Changed Lives

By Daniyal Mueenuddin | January 7, 2020

Irish writer gets into Twitter fight with… the Auschwitz Memorial Museum?

Irish writer gets into Twitter fight with… the Auschwitz Memorial Museum?

By Jonny Diamond | January 6, 2020

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

The FP Staff Shares Favorite Titles From the Last Half Century

By Literary Hub | January 6, 2020

On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

From Camilla Townsend's Cundill Prize-Nominated Fifth Sun

By Camilla Townsend | December 19, 2019

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The Governor's Race That Made George Wallace a Hardline Segregationist

By Peggy Wallace Kennedy | December 19, 2019

One Man's Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

By Susan G. Davis | December 18, 2019

Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?

By Guy Crosby | December 17, 2019

On the Dumping Grounds of Fuerteventura, the Real Isle of Dogs

On the Dumping Grounds of Fuerteventura, the Real Isle of Dogs

Wild Dogs, Old Gods, and the History of a Place

By Matthew Gavin Frank | December 17, 2019

Bringing Hitler's Hidden Army to Justice

Bringing Hitler's Hidden Army to Justice

Nazi-Hunting in America

By Debbie Cenziper | December 16, 2019

For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can't Be Kept on a Clock

For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can't Be Kept on a Clock

Gabrielle Bellot on Berger's Final Collaboration

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Meet a Bad Man Who Became<br> a Truly Great Spy

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Owen Matthews on Richard Sorge, Master of Espionage

By Owen Matthews | December 16, 2019

Finding a Beautiful Escape in Illuminated Manuscripts

Finding a Beautiful Escape in Illuminated Manuscripts

Christopher de Hamel on Growing Up in New Zealand, Medieval History, the Book of Hours, and More

By Christopher de Hamel | December 16, 2019

Virginia Woolf's Mother Haunts <br>Much of Her Writing

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Gillian Gill on Julia Stephen's Multilayered
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By Gillian Gill | December 12, 2019

W.E.B. Du Bois in Paris: The Exhibition That Shattered Myths About Black America

W.E.B. Du Bois in Paris: The Exhibition That Shattered Myths About Black America

On the Aesthetics of Research

By Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall | December 12, 2019

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