• History

    The Booker Revisited

    On the Nested Worlds of Novelist Marina Warner

    By Lucy Scholes  April 3, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Who Was the Man Behind Oscar Wilde’s Downfall?

    By History of Literature  April 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Timothy Phillips on a 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War

    By Keen On  April 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Michael Scott-Baumann Explains the Dual Histories of Israel and Palestine

    By Keen On  April 3, 2023
    Author Interviews

    How Octavia Butler’s Kindred Became a Novel

    By Michael Silverblatt  March 31, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Lost King is a Jubilant Story of Historical Discovery and Overdue Recognition

    By Olivia Rutigliano  March 31, 2023
    What to Watch

    FX’s Great Expectations Doesn’t Measure Up

    By Olivia Rutigliano  March 31, 2023
    Biology

    How Smell—the Most Underrated Sense—Was Overpowered By Our Other Senses

    By Ashley Ward  March 29, 2023
    American History

    How a War Over Eggs Marked the Early History of San Francisco

    By Lizzie Stark  March 29, 2023
    Keen On

    Karl Schlogel Digs Up an Encyclopedic and Richly Detailed History of Everyday Life in the Soviet Union

    By Keen On  March 28, 2023
    Keen On

    Brian Lowery on the Myth of Rugged Individualism and What This Means for the America of the 2020s

    By Keen On  March 28, 2023
    Keen On

    Eli Merritt Offers Advice and Inspiration From World Leaders on How to Save Democracy From Demagogues Like Trump

    By Keen On  March 28, 2023
    Big Data

    From Eugenics to Targeted Advertising: The Dark Role of Data in Sorting Humanity

    By Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones  March 27, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Valemon The Bear: Myth in the Age of the Anthropocene with Martin Shaw

    By Emergence Magazine  March 27, 2023
    Keen On

    Jeffrey E. Stern on a Many Layered Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

    By Keen On  March 27, 2023
    The History of Literature

    The Art of War: How Can a Book Written Two and a Half Millennia Ago Remain Timeless?

    By History of Literature  March 27, 2023
    Democracy

    Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy

    By Arundhati Roy  March 24, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 23, 2023
    Geology

    From Volcanoes To Bathtubs: On the Many Uses and Forms of Pumice

    By Hettie Judah  March 23, 2023
    Keen On

    Ren DeStefano on Female Serial Killers and Why She Suspects Everyone Might Have a Murder in Them

    By Keen On  March 23, 2023
    Keen On

    John Parker Liberates African History From the Colonial Narrative of Oppression, Suffering, and Powerlessness

    By Keen On  March 22, 2023
    Representation

    You Cannot Protect Your Children From Moana: How Not to Fight Fairy Tales

    By Julia Langbein  March 21, 2023
    Keen On

    Martin Puchner on How Culture is Simultaneously Owned by Nobody and By All of Us

    By Keen On  March 21, 2023
    Philosophy

    How To Think Like a Woman: A Brief Accounting of Unacknowledged Philosophical Genius

    By Regan Penaluna  March 20, 2023
    Inequality

    Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance

    By Alissa Quart  March 20, 2023
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