• History

    Loneliness

    Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Loneliness

    By Richard Deming  October 5, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The (Not So) Lost Buddhisms of India

    By Douglas Ober  October 5, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    On the Multifaceted Women Who Inspired Saint Augustine

    By Kate Cooper  October 4, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The Italian Monk Who Foresaw Europe’s Obsession With Eugenics

    By Mackenzie Cooley  October 3, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments

    By Matthew Connelly  October 2, 2023
    Guns

    “Come and Take It”: How the Aftermath of Sandy Hook Led to More AR-15s Being Sold Than Ever Before

    By Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson  October 2, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human

    By Alison Bashford  September 28, 2023
    Sci-Fi

    From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert’s Dune

    By Ryan Britt  September 27, 2023
    Shakespeare

    On Shakespeare’s Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard’s Plays From Being Burned

    By Gregory Doran  September 27, 2023
    Activism

    How Bayard Rustin Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nonviolent Activism

    By Jonathan Eig  September 25, 2023
    Shipwrecks

    All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

    By Fae Myenne Ng  September 21, 2023
    Nature

    How America’s Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

    By Tiya Miles  September 21, 2023
    Feminist History

    We Are Not Alone: 50 Years of Ms. Magazine

    By Gloria Steinem  September 20, 2023
    Jewish History

    On the Rothschilds’ Myth in Literature and Film

    By Mike Rothschild  September 20, 2023
    Astronauts

    First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

    By Loren Grush  September 14, 2023
    Fashion History

    How the Humble Pocket Came to Signify Feminist Liberation

    By Hannah Carlson  September 12, 2023
    Afghanistan

    The Remarkable Story of the Horsewomen Warriors of Afghanistan

    By Pardis Mahdavi  September 11, 2023
    Vacations

    “Out of Time’s Monotone”: The Literary Life of the French Riviera

    By Jonathan Miles  September 6, 2023
    American West

    Notions of “Wilderness:” Nine Essential Books About the American Frontier

    By Peter Stark  September 5, 2023
    Fathers and Sons

    How The Odyssey Helped My Father and Me to Grow

    By Daniel Mendelsohn  September 1, 2023
    Inventions

    How Complex Math and Human Innovation Created the Calculator

    By Keith Houston  August 31, 2023
    What to Watch

    Beyond Tortured Genius: Science and Conscience in Two Rediscovered Oppenheimer Films

    By Lauren Carroll Harris  August 31, 2023
    Cosmology

    On the “Inverted Cosmos”—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

    By William Egginton  August 30, 2023
    Copyright

    Did J.D. Salinger Wield Copyright as Self-Protection?

    By Olivia Rutigliano  August 30, 2023
    Literary History

    How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov’s Lolita from Being Published

    By Thomas Harding  August 29, 2023
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