How Big Sugar Got Rich Off American Cravings

How Big Sugar Got Rich Off American Cravings

James Walvin on the Unholy Trinity of Soft Drinks, Corn Syrup, and Capitalism

By James Walvin | April 5, 2018

When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

Perhaps They Accuse Me of Being a Whore Because They Can Find No Other Insult

By Emily Temple | April 4, 2018

Masha Gessen: Inside the Gulags of the Soviet Union

Masha Gessen: Inside the Gulags of the Soviet Union

By the Time Stalin Died, 2.5 Million People Were Being Held in Camps

By Masha Gessen | March 26, 2018

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, and the Tumultuous Summer of 1962

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, and the Tumultuous Summer of 1962

How Two Landmark Books by Two Trailblazing Women Rocked America

By Andrea Barnet | March 23, 2018

How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

Glorifying Disaster in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

By Edward J. Larson | March 16, 2018

Maeve Brennan: On the Life of a Great Irish Writer, and Its Sad End

Maeve Brennan: On the Life of a Great Irish Writer, and Its Sad End

From the Pages of The New Yorker to the Streets of New York

By Kathleen Hill | March 16, 2018

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How a Letter from Einstein Saved a Scientist from Nazi Germany

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How Leo and Gertrude Stein Revolutionized the Art World

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Miles J. Unger on the Early Patrons of Picasso and Matisse

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Networks: Another Thing Silicon Valley Didn't Actually Invent

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Andrew Keen in Conversation with Niall Ferguson

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The Onstage Origins of Van Morrison's Legendary <em>Astral Weeks</em>

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I Call Your Name Whenever I Can: The Letters of Pat Parker and Audre Lorde

I Call Your Name Whenever I Can: The Letters of Pat Parker and Audre Lorde

"Beware Feeling You’re Not Good Enough to Deserve It"

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When Rousseau Advocated for Book-Burning

When Rousseau Advocated for Book-Burning

One of France's Great Philosophers, a Troll Ahead of His Time

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Acquiring Books for the Greatest Libraries in the World

Acquiring Books for the Greatest Libraries in the World

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By Alexander Bevilacqua | February 23, 2018

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