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Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

Of Course, Samuel Johnson Met James Boswell in a Bookstore

Where Else Do Men of Letters Pal Around?

By Leo Damrosch | May 16, 2019

Inside San Francisco's Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900

Inside San Francisco's Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900

A City on the Edge

By Julia Flynn Siler | May 15, 2019

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

On the 1909 National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Seattle

By Susan Ware | May 13, 2019

A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

"Shade Comes From Reading. Reading Came First." –Dorian Corey

By Jeanna Kadlec | May 13, 2019

How the Bubonic Plague <em>Almost</em> Came to America

How the Bubonic Plague Almost Came to America

A Pompous Doctor, a Racist Bureaucracy, and More!

By David K. Randall | May 9, 2019

We Have Always Loved<br> Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

We Have Always Loved
Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

Douglas Brinkley Offers a Brief History of Political Listicles

By Douglas Brinkley | May 8, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

On the Unsung Lives
of the Chinese Laborers Who Built the Railroad

By Gordon H. Chang | May 8, 2019

On Founding One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections

By Amos Reichman | May 7, 2019

Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with
the British Monarchy?)

By Robert Morrison | May 6, 2019

Revolutionary Travel Writer <br>Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

Revolutionary Travel Writer
Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

"Without experience... We can possess no knowledge of the world."

By Jürgen Goldstein | May 6, 2019

Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

"White’s patriotism is clear-eyed; his nationalism nonexistent."

By Jon Meacham | May 6, 2019

Through Films for Black Audiences, Ousmane Sembene Spoke to All

Through Films for Black Audiences, Ousmane Sembene Spoke to All

Mateo Askaripour on the "Father of African Cinema"

By Mateo Askaripour | May 2, 2019

Edmund White on Stonewall, the 'Decisive Uprising' of Gay Liberation

Edmund White on Stonewall, the 'Decisive Uprising' of Gay Liberation

At What Point Does Resistance Become the Only Choice?

By Edmund White | April 30, 2019

The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer's Life

The Journey That Changed Geoffrey Chaucer's Life

Two Tyrants, Two Poets, and a Long Pilgrimage to Milan

By Marion Turner | April 29, 2019

Like Twitter But Cold: On the Literary Culture of Arctic Expeditions

Like Twitter But Cold: On the Literary Culture of Arctic Expeditions

Can You Can Imagine Taking a Printing Press to the North Pole?

By Hester Blum | April 26, 2019

The View from the Middle of Everything

The View from the Middle of Everything

Dispatches From Flatville, Illinois

By Kristin L. Hoganson | April 25, 2019

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