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The Deadliest Weapon of War That Was Never Actually Used

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

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)

Balzac Tried to Buy a Waistcoat for Every Day of the Year (and Other Revelations of Parisian Fashion)

On the Absurd and Wonderful Sartorial Habits of a Great Writer

By Valerie Steele | September 11, 2017

“He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague

“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

Two Never Before Published Letters from Marcel Proust to His Neighbor

Two Never Before Published Letters from Marcel Proust to His Neighbor

Lydia Davis Translates a Couple Requests for Quiet

By Marcel Proust | August 25, 2017

Another Way New York City is Dying: The Rise of Fauxstalgia

Another Way New York City is Dying: The Rise of Fauxstalgia

Jeremiah Moss on NYC Restaurateurs Rebooting Classic Restaurants

By Jeremiah Moss | August 16, 2017

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The First English Woman to Make a Living as a Writer Was Also a Spy

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By Sam Shepard | August 2, 2017

Duke Ellington Really Just Wanted to Be a Writer

By Brent Hayes Edwards | August 1, 2017

Svetlana Alexievich on Why She Does What She Does

Svetlana Alexievich on Why She Does What She Does

A Nobel Laureate at the Beginning of Her Career

By Svetlana Alexievich | July 27, 2017

The Invention of the Rural Hipster

The Invention of the Rural Hipster

On the Gaskins, Going Back to the Land, and Old Time American Wisdom

By John T. Edge | July 24, 2017

Judging Evil: At the Birthplace of International Justice

Judging Evil: At the Birthplace of International Justice

Philippe Sands on the History of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

By Philippe Sands | July 11, 2017

The American Artist Who's Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

The American Artist Who's Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

Comics Creator Jason Lutes on a Project That's Spanned Half his Life

By Daniel A. Gross | July 7, 2017

Illuminating Forgotten History with the Bright Light of Fiction

Illuminating Forgotten History with the Bright Light of Fiction

Dave Boling Follows a Thread of Family History to Tell Untold Stories

By Dave Boling | June 23, 2017

Why Has No One Ever Heard of the World's First Poet?

Why Has No One Ever Heard of the World's First Poet?

Enheduanna is Revered by Ancient Alien Conspiracy Theorists—But Few Others

By Charles Halton | June 22, 2017

How Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir Invented Cool

How Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir Invented Cool

Without defying limits and social conventions, There would be no cool

By Joel Dinerstein | June 19, 2017

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