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Dictators Kill Poets: On Federico García Lorca's Last Days

Dictators Kill Poets: On Federico García Lorca's Last Days

"And now his blood comes out singing."

By Aaron Shulman | March 5, 2019

If de Tocqueville Predicted Twitter, Balzac Knew Trump Would Use It

If de Tocqueville Predicted Twitter, Balzac Knew Trump Would Use It

Liesl Schillinger on Reading Balzac in the Age of Trump

By Liesl Schillinger | February 26, 2019

The Black Women Who Wrote America's Earliest Autofiction

The Black Women Who Wrote America's Earliest Autofiction

On Following a Radical Lineage Back to the Slave Narrative

By Maryam Kazeem | February 25, 2019

The Forgotten Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii

The Forgotten Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii

A Dark Chapter in the History of Religious Persecution

By Duncan Ryūken Williams | February 25, 2019

When the Highest Paid Hollywood Director Was a Woman

When the Highest Paid Hollywood Director Was a Woman

Unforgetting Lois Weber, Master of the Silent Film Era

By Sasha Archibald | February 21, 2019

Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

Daniel Immerwahr on the Erasure of American "Territories" from US History

By Daniel Immerwahr | February 20, 2019

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High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

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By Michael Ursell | February 13, 2019

Beneath the Streets of Paris, in Search of the Cataphiles

Beneath the Streets of Paris, in Search of the Cataphiles

Revelry, Mayhem, and Illicit Movie Theaters, Under the City of Light

By Will Hunt | February 12, 2019

How Did So Many Writers Get Access to Opiates?

How Did So Many Writers Get Access to Opiates?

Mapping Addiction, From Cocteau to Burroughs

By Lucy Inglis | February 5, 2019

Poet, Artist, Erotic Muse of Mexico's Avant Garde: Rediscovering Nahui Olin

Poet, Artist, Erotic Muse of Mexico's Avant Garde: Rediscovering Nahui Olin

On the Life and Times of a True Iconoclast

By Claire Mullen | February 1, 2019

The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

On the Assassination of Ernst vom Rath by 17-Year-Old Herschel Grynszpan

By Stephen Koch | January 31, 2019

A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A Hundred Years at the Edge of Empire

By Stephen Benz | January 30, 2019

Recipes and Wisdom from the Late, Great Ntozake Shange

Recipes and Wisdom from the Late, Great Ntozake Shange

"Let ’em simmer till the greens are the texture you want."

By Ntozake Shange | January 29, 2019

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