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History
America, Waging Unpopular Wars Right from the Start!
Michael Beschloss on James Madison and the War of 1812
By
Michael Beschloss
| October 26, 2018
On the Very Scary Rise of the First Literary Vampire
The Time Byron and Shelley and Godwin and Polidori Freaked Themselves Out
By
Nick Groom
| October 25, 2018
The Moment When Punk Collided With Poetry
On the Rock 'n' Roll Art of Patti Smith, Sam Shepard, and More
By
Kembrew McLeod
| October 19, 2018
The Anxiety of the Pilot Upon Attempting to Land a Plane
On Night-Flying, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and a Crisis Over Patagonia
By
María Sonia Cristoff
| October 19, 2018
Worst Pope of All Time?
Cronyism, Adultery, Torture... He Was No Francis
By
Simon Sebag Montefiore
| October 17, 2018
Uwe Johnson: A Chapter a Day for a Year
Read a diary entry a day this week
By
Uwe Johnson
| October 9, 2018
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Meet the Beloved Pet Ravens of Charles Dickens
By
Christopher Skaife
| October 2, 2018
The Literary Heroes of Teen Benjamin Franklin
By
Nick Bunker
| October 1, 2018
On the British Brothers Who Infiltrated Nazi-Occupied France
By
Charles Glass
| September 28, 2018
When the Food We Ate Was Literally Poison (Even More So Than Now)
On the Bad Old Days of Pre-Regulated Food Production
By
Deborah Blum
| September 27, 2018
We Really Still Need Howard Zinn
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Why His Writing is a Gift to Today's Activists
By
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
| September 27, 2018
The Rise of Arthur Ashe: Tennis Star, Civil Rights Activist
"I finally stopped trying to be part of white society."
By
Raymond Arsenault
| September 26, 2018
How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings
Sherilynn A. Ifill on Justice (and Its Absence) in the 1930s
By
Sherilynn A. Ifill
| September 26, 2018
The Mysterious Case of a Mongolian Murder That Might Have Been...
Leonid Yuzefovich Follows a Footnote Across 100 Years and 1,000 Miles
By
Leonid Yuzefovich
| September 20, 2018
Who Exactly Was the Original Jezebel?
How Women's Power Was First Linked to Sexuality and Deception
By
Wednesday Martin
| September 20, 2018
Acting While Black in the Civil Rights Era
On the Challenges Facing Black TV Actors in the 1960s
By
Ann duCille
| September 17, 2018
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