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How the Coney Island Sideshow Saved Thousands of Babies

How the Coney Island Sideshow Saved Thousands of Babies

Before Neonatal Care in Hospitals, There Were Incubators at the Carnival

By Tessa Fontaine | May 3, 2018

How Gay Liberation Sparked the Nightclub Scene in London

How Gay Liberation Sparked the Nightclub Scene in London

Peter Ackroyd on AIDS in the UK, Clause 28, and the Gay Liberation Front

By Peter Ackroyd | May 2, 2018

200 Years of <em>Frankenstein</em> On Stage and Onscreen

200 Years of Frankenstein On Stage and Onscreen

How Shelley's Tale Became Inseparable from its Film Incarnation

By Iris Veysey | April 27, 2018

The Strange Cinematic History of <em>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</em>

The Strange Cinematic History of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

From The Nutty Professor to the Brand New Mrs. Hyde

By Craig Hubert | April 27, 2018

When War Destroyed My Grandmother's Grave

When War Destroyed My Grandmother's Grave

In Iraq, War Comes with Various Names

By Dunya Mikhail | April 19, 2018

When Kathy Acker Interviewed the Spice Girls

When Kathy Acker Interviewed the Spice Girls

"Money makes the world what it is today . . . a world infested with evil."

By Emily Temple | April 18, 2018

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On James Baldwin's Radical Writing for Playboy Magazine

By Joseph Vogel | April 17, 2018

Your Pocket Guide to 10 Literary Movements

By Emily Temple | April 5, 2018

How Big Sugar Got Rich Off American Cravings

By James Walvin | April 5, 2018

When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

Perhaps They Accuse Me of Being a Whore Because They Can Find No Other Insult

By Emily Temple | April 4, 2018

Masha Gessen: Inside the Gulags of the Soviet Union

Masha Gessen: Inside the Gulags of the Soviet Union

By the Time Stalin Died, 2.5 Million People Were Being Held in Camps

By Masha Gessen | March 26, 2018

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, and the Tumultuous Summer of 1962

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, and the Tumultuous Summer of 1962

How Two Landmark Books by Two Trailblazing Women Rocked America

By Andrea Barnet | March 23, 2018

How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

Glorifying Disaster in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

By Edward J. Larson | March 16, 2018

Maeve Brennan: On the Life of a Great Irish Writer, and Its Sad End

Maeve Brennan: On the Life of a Great Irish Writer, and Its Sad End

From the Pages of The New Yorker to the Streets of New York

By Kathleen Hill | March 16, 2018

In Which Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin Discuss Carson McCullers (and More)

In Which Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin Discuss Carson McCullers (and More)

From the Correspondence of "Jay" and "10"

By Literary Hub | March 16, 2018

How a Letter from Einstein Saved a Scientist from Nazi Germany

How a Letter from Einstein Saved a Scientist from Nazi Germany

Gerald Weissmann on the Nativist US Immigration Policies of the 1930s

By Gerald Weissmann | March 15, 2018

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