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HBO’s <em>The Plot Against America</em> Betrays Philip Roth—With Excellent Results

HBO’s The Plot Against America Betrays Philip Roth—With Excellent Results

The TV Adaptation Makes Up For Where the Author Fell Short

By Jacques Berlinerblau | March 23, 2020

Babe Ruth and the Moment American Baseball Changed Forever

Babe Ruth and the Moment American Baseball Changed Forever

Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith on the Making of a Legend

By Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith | March 23, 2020

On the Road with the Heiress Who Dominated Early Motorsports

On the Road with the Heiress Who Dominated Early Motorsports

Neal Bascomb on the Life and Times of Lucy Schell

By Neal Bascomb | March 20, 2020

A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop

A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop

Mark Nowak on the Workshops of the Watts Rebellion

By Mark Nowak | March 20, 2020

Italy's Answer to Coronavirus is a Classic Published Almost 200 Years Ago

Italy's Answer to Coronavirus is a Classic Published Almost 200 Years Ago

Alessio Perrone Reports from Milan

By Alessio Perrone | March 19, 2020

Can We Talk About How Austen's Characters Tend to Blur Together?

Can We Talk About How Austen's Characters Tend to Blur Together?

Emily Hodgson Anderson on Jane and Jane and Jane

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | March 18, 2020

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In Those Years She Was Feral: Midcentury Life in the Soviet Union

By Alex Halberstadt | March 18, 2020

How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

By Emily Temple | March 17, 2020

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

By Andrew Belonsky | March 16, 2020

Sugar and Sex in the American Imagination

Sugar and Sex in the American Imagination

Monique Truong on Calling a Woman “Sweet”

By Monique Truong | March 16, 2020

What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus's <em>The Plague</em>

What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus's The Plague

Liesl Schillinger on Catastrophe, Contagion, and the Human Condition

By Liesl Schillinger | March 13, 2020

Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Alireza Doostdar on Blessing, Punishment, and Witnessing War

By Alireza Doostdar | March 13, 2020

Race and Spectacle in the Circuses of Gilded Age America

Race and Spectacle in the Circuses of Gilded Age America

Jacob Dorman on Circus Orientalism and Racial Othering

By Jacob Dorman | March 12, 2020

Trump Threatened Iranian Cultural Sites. This Is What They Look Like.

Trump Threatened Iranian Cultural Sites. This Is What They Look Like.

Terence Ward on Iran's Stunning UNESCO Heritage Locations

By Terence Ward | March 12, 2020

Yan Lianke: What Happens After Coronavirus?

Yan Lianke: What Happens After Coronavirus?

On Community Memory and Repeating Our Own Mistakes

By Yan Lianke | March 11, 2020

The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

Nathan Rabb on What He Learned From His Father's Bookshelf

By Nathan Rabb | March 11, 2020

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