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Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws

Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws

Ed Simon on Free Speech, Book Bans and Court-Mandated Censorship, Then and Now

By Ed Simon | July 3, 2024

Is it the summer of the brat?

Is it the summer of the brat?

By Brittany Allen | July 1, 2024

Blood-Soaked Handkerchiefs and Burnt Dresses: The Lizzie Borden Trial, as Told in a Newspaper of the Time

Blood-Soaked Handkerchiefs and Burnt Dresses: The Lizzie Borden Trial, as Told in a Newspaper of the Time

The Journalist and Suffragist Elizabeth Garver Jordan Covers a Macabre Media Sensation

By Elizabeth Garver Jordan | July 1, 2024

Teenage Queen: Behind the Scenes on the Set of <em>My Lady Jane</em>

Teenage Queen: Behind the Scenes on the Set of My Lady Jane

Alexis Gunderson on Bringing the Little Told Story of Lady Jane Grey to the Screen

By Alexis Gunderson | June 27, 2024

On the Time Benjamin Franklin, American Show-Off, Jumped Naked Into the Thames

On the Time Benjamin Franklin, American Show-Off, Jumped Naked Into the Thames

Vicki Valosik on Our Millennia Long Love-Hate Relationship With Getting in the Water

By Vicki Valosik | June 27, 2024

How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

Adam Smyth on Nancy Cunard, the Woman Who First Discovered the Future Nobel Laureate

By Adam Smyth | June 26, 2024

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Generation Franchise:
Why Writers Are Forced to Become Brands (and Why That’s Bad)

By Jess Row | June 26, 2024

How Charles Darwin Became a 19th-Century Scientific Rock Star

By Howard Markel | June 25, 2024

In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane

By Bradford Morrow | June 25, 2024

75 Years of <em>1984</em>: Why George Orwell’s Classic Remains More Relevant Than Ever

75 Years of 1984: Why George Orwell’s Classic Remains More Relevant Than Ever

Elif Shafak on the Relentless Real-World Spread of Orwellian Dystopia

By Elif Shafak | June 24, 2024

Why American Journalists Should Be Outraged About the Dozens of Palestinian Journalists Jailed in Israel

Why American Journalists Should Be Outraged About the Dozens of Palestinian Journalists Jailed in Israel

"If journalism is not a crime, then it should not be treated as a crime by any government for any journalist."

By Steven W. Thrasher | June 21, 2024

How Activists Across the Pacific Northwest Planned the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests

How Activists Across the Pacific Northwest Planned the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests

DW Gibson Looks Back on the Environmentalist and Anti-Globalization Movements of the 1990s

By DW Gibson | June 21, 2024

Nikole Hannah-Jones Reflects on the Most Important Historical Project of Our Generation

Nikole Hannah-Jones Reflects on the Most Important Historical Project of Our Generation

In Conversation with Channler Twyman on Five Years of "The 1619 Project"

By Channler Twyman | June 19, 2024

A definitive ranking of Brat Pack movies.

A definitive ranking of Brat Pack movies.

In honor of Andrew McCarthy's documentary.

By Brittany Allen | June 18, 2024

How a Young Harriet Tubman Found Solace in Syncretic Religion

How a Young Harriet Tubman Found Solace in Syncretic Religion

Tiya Miles on the Famed Abolitionist’s Early Spiritual Education

By Tiya Miles | June 18, 2024

Francine Prose on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of the 1970s

Francine Prose on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of the 1970s

“We were not supposed to notice the gap between what we were supposed to feel and what we felt.”

By Francine Prose | June 17, 2024

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