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History
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?
Emily Hodgson Anderson on Jane and Jane and Jane
By
Emily Hodgson Anderson
| March 18, 2020
In Those Years She Was Feral: Midcentury Life in the Soviet Union
Alex Halberstadt on the Life and Times of His Grandmother Tamara
By
Alex Halberstadt
| March 18, 2020
How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him
“I regard such things as premature impertinences.”
By
Emily Temple
| March 17, 2020
How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries
Andrew Belonsky on the Moravian Book Shop in Pennsylvania
By
Andrew Belonsky
| March 16, 2020
Sugar and Sex in the American Imagination
Monique Truong on Calling a Woman “Sweet”
By
Monique Truong
| March 16, 2020
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus's
The Plague
By
Liesl Schillinger
| March 13, 2020
Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran
By
Alireza Doostdar
| March 13, 2020
Race and Spectacle in the Circuses of Gilded Age America
By
Jacob Dorman
| March 12, 2020
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?
On Community Memory and Repeating Our Own Mistakes
By
Yan Lianke
| March 11, 2020
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
How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?
Will Storr on the Neuroscience Behind the World We See
By
Will Storr
| March 11, 2020
On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement
Gerald Posner on Cicely Saunders, the UK Nurse-Turned-Physician
By
Gerald Posner
| March 11, 2020
How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon 'Free Lunch.'
Ben Katchor's Brief History of the Dairy Restaurant
By
Ben Katchor
| March 10, 2020
Why Does This Portuguese City Glorify the Author Who
Hated It?
José Maria de Eça de Queirós Detested Life in Leiria
By
Carolina Marques de Mesquita
| March 9, 2020
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Why The Mechanic, not The Jackal, Is the Ultimate 1970s Movie Hitman
October 29, 2026
by
J.M. Berger
Richard Chizmar on horror, alter egos, and ending his Boogeyman series
October 29, 2026
by
John B. Valeri
Adam Plantinga on writing gritty, tough-guy protagonists in modern crime fiction
October 29, 2026
by
Adam Plantinga
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"A vivid, sometimes grisly, sometimes enraging portrait of 19th-century British society ... Probing and excellent."