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History
Mark Twain, Cocaine Kingpin?
"I never was great in matters of detail"
By
Alan Pell Crawford
| October 16, 2017
How a History of Two Pet Chameleons Made a Case for the Animal Soul
On Madeleine de Scudéry’s History of “The Most Beautiful Animal in the World”
By
Peter Sahlins
| October 6, 2017
10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)
A Brief History of Bibliocide
By
Emily Temple
| October 4, 2017
The Mess We're In: On the Inevitability of Post-Cold War Chaos
Historian Odd Arne Westad Wonders if it Could Have Been Different
By
Odd Arne Westad
| September 28, 2017
Returning Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to the Skies
On the Origins of
The Little Prince
and Restoring a Classic Plane
By
Douglas R. Dechow and Anna Leahy
| September 26, 2017
Speaking Truth to Power is as American as Apple Pie
America’s First Revolutionary Abolitionist Deserves a Statue in the Middle of Town
By
Marcus Rediker
| September 26, 2017
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| September 21, 2017
When Chicago Was the Real Literary Capital of the United States
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Liesl Olson
| September 18, 2017
From High School to Vietnam, Waiting for the Fight to Begin
By
Doug Stanton
| September 18, 2017
American Xenophobia: Each Generation Must Write the Wrongs of History
Veronica Esposito on the Legacy and Lessons of Japanese Internment
By
Veronica Esposito
| September 18, 2017
To Abolish the Chinese Language: On a Century of Reformist Rhetoric
Thomas S. Mullaney on Theories of Chinese Modernization
By
Thomas S. Mullaney
| September 15, 2017
Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the Meaning of "Survivor"
“There is No Payment That Could Begin to Make Up for Any of It”
By
Elizabeth Rosner
| September 15, 2017
The Deadliest Weapon of War That Was Never Actually Used
Part Two of the Life and Times of James B. Conant: The Chemical Weapons Arms Race
By
Jennet Conant
| September 13, 2017
Drinking With Stalin on Christmas: An American in Moscow at the Dawn of the Cold War
Part One of the Life and Times of James B. Conant
By
Jennet Conant
| September 12, 2017
Balzac Tried to Buy a Waistcoat for Every Day of the Year (and Other Revelations of Parisian Fashion)
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By
Valerie Steele
| September 11, 2017
“He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague
A Diverting Anecdote from a Grim and Unamusing Epoch
By
Philip Roth
| September 8, 2017
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Courtney Psak
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"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"