• History

    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Erika T. Wurth on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Intergenerational Trauma, and Heavy Metal

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 8, 2022
    Criticism

    Why (Most) Critics Hated The Waste Land When It Was Published

    By Jed Rasula  December 8, 2022
    The Hub

    On this day in literary history, Anthony Trollope died of the giggles. (For real.)

    By Emily Temple  December 6, 2022
    Keen On

    What Do FDR, Trump, and Lincoln Have in Common? The Worst Transitions of Presidential Power in American History

    By Keen On  December 6, 2022
    Indigenous Voices

    How Language Can Be Used to Destroy and Dominate, and How It Can Be Used to Remember and Reclaim

    By Jake Skeets  December 5, 2022
    Keen On

    What a Novel Set in the Siberia of 1973 Tells Us About the Soviet Union, Women’s Gymnastics, and Contemporary America

    By Keen On  December 2, 2022
    Keen On

    What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

    By Keen On  December 2, 2022
    Pirates

    Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

    By Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos  December 1, 2022
    Just the Right Book

    Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

    By Just the Right Book   December 1, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Joe Hagan on How the Death of Boredom Is the Biggest Loss of Our Generation

    By Twitterverse   December 1, 2022
    WWII

    The Challenge of Confronting Hitler’s Moral Stain on Europe

    By Ian Kershaw  December 1, 2022
    Keen On

    In a Time of Hostility Toward Reason and Science, What Can the Ancient Greeks Teach us About the Value of Rationality?

    By Keen On  December 1, 2022
    WWII

    Iain MacGregor on Discovering the Untold Stories of Stalingrad’s Citizens

    By Iain MacGregor  November 30, 2022
    Cities

    Ghostly Survivals: Michael Kimmelman and Lucy Sante on a Shapeshifting City

    By Michael Kimmelman  November 29, 2022
    Keen On

    When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

    By Keen On  November 29, 2022
    Poetry

    Read a New Translation of “The Caucasus” by Ukrainian Poet-Hero Taras Shevchenko

    By Literary Hub  November 29, 2022
    The Literary Journal Archives

    Deep in the Literary Journal Archives: Poetry That Takes Risks and Takes Up Space

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 29, 2022
    Keen On

    Do the Oscars Have a Future in an Age of Superhero Sequels and Prequels?

    By Keen On  November 29, 2022
    Literary History

    Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

    By Paul Lafargue  November 28, 2022
    Indigenous History

    On Preserving the Lenape Language (and Trying to Get Face Time with an NYC Mayor)

    By Margie Cook  November 28, 2022
    Keen On

    How the 1977 Siege of Washington Marks the Beginning of Our Preoccupation With “Terrorist” Violence and Real-Time News

    By Keen On  November 28, 2022
    American History

    How the Slavery-Like Conditions of Convict Leasing Flourished After the Collapse of Reconstruction

    By Jefferson Cowie  November 23, 2022
    Islam

    How the Nation of Islam Sent Shockwaves Across 1950s America

    By Shahan Mufti  November 23, 2022
    American History

    How Thomas Jefferson’s Writing Established the Stories of Colonial America

    By Fred Kaplan  November 23, 2022
    Toys

    How LEGO Marked and Marketed the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    By Jens Andersen  November 22, 2022
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