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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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On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement

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Why Does This Portuguese City Glorify the Author Who<br> Hated It?

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David Nott on Traveling to Aleppo to Save Lives

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The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

Robin D.G. Kelley on the Predecessors to Antifa

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What's the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

What's the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

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Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

On Rose Pastor and the Activists of the University Settlement Society

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Charles Dickens really, really hated his fanboy Hans Christian Andersen.

Charles Dickens really, really hated his fanboy Hans Christian Andersen.

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How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

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