On the Covert Role of Knitting During the French Revolution and World War II

On the Covert Role of Knitting During the French Revolution and World War II

Loretta Napoleoni Traces the History of Women Who Stitched Their Way To Freedom

By Loretta Napoleoni | November 4, 2020

Why Byzantium? Studying the Art of the Middle Ages as a Queer Latinx

Why Byzantium? Studying the Art of the Middle Ages as a Queer Latinx

Roland Betancourt on the Origins of His Latest Book

By Roland Betancourt | November 4, 2020

How Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery Undermined White Supremacy

How Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery Undermined White Supremacy

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | November 4, 2020

Growing Up in the Soviet Union's Hero City

Growing Up in the Soviet Union's Hero City

Or: Self-Portrait with Madonna by the Palace of the Republic

By Valzhyna Mort | November 3, 2020

On the Connection Between Whaling and Imperialism in the Bering Strait

On the Connection Between Whaling and Imperialism in the Bering Strait

From the Time to Eat the Dogs Podcast with Michael Robinson

By Time to Eat the Dogs | November 3, 2020

Megan Rosenbloom on the Macabre History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Megan Rosenbloom on the Macabre History of Books Bound in Human Skin

In Conversation with Julia Ringo on the Well-Versed Podcast

By Well-Versed | November 3, 2020

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How Conventional Conflicts Become Nuclear Wars

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Masha Gessen on the Role of Memory After State-Sponsored Atrocity

By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann | November 2, 2020

Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

Examining the Intellectual Life of Alexander Herzen

By Pankaj Mishra | November 2, 2020

Conservatism is Always Evolving

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Edmund Fawcett on the Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast

By New Books Network | November 2, 2020

A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

Roy A. Meals, Bone Expert, Has the Skinny

By Roy A. Meals, MD | October 30, 2020

When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

By Corinne Segal | October 29, 2020

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

Emily Van Duyne on Heather Clark's Red Comet

By Emily Van Duyne | October 29, 2020

How New York's Leaders Enabled Trump All the Way to the Presidency

How New York's Leaders Enabled Trump All the Way to the Presidency

Eileen Markey in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 29, 2020

Please Don't Feed the Gringos: The US-Mexico Divide

Please Don't Feed the Gringos: The US-Mexico Divide

Claudio Lomnitz on Borders as Animal Enclosures

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