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An Overdue Reckoning: How Sweden Continues to Deny Its Settler-Colonial Past

An Overdue Reckoning: How Sweden Continues to Deny Its Settler-Colonial Past

Linnea Axelsson on Scandinavia’s Hidden History of Indigenous Oppression

By Linnea Axelsson | February 16, 2024

You’ve Got Mail: Poring Over the Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You’ve Got Mail: Poring Over the Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Laura McNeal on an Archive of Romance

By Laura McNeal | February 14, 2024

Steeped in War and Erasure: Amitav Ghosh on How Tea Funded the British Empire’s Expansion

Steeped in War and Erasure: Amitav Ghosh on How Tea Funded the British Empire’s Expansion

On the Complex Colonial Histories of Chinese and Indian Tea

By Amitav Ghosh | February 14, 2024

Romance In the White House: What George Washington Wrote To His Wife

Romance In the White House: What George Washington Wrote To His Wife

Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler on Presidential Love Letters Throughout the Centuries

By Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler | February 14, 2024

Imaginary Homelands: Lauren Markham Returns to Ancestral Landscapes for the Very First Time

Imaginary Homelands: Lauren Markham Returns to Ancestral Landscapes for the Very First Time

“My ancestors had left Greece; now, a hundred years later, millions were desperate to get here.”

By Lauren Markham | February 13, 2024

Who Made Who? On the Creative Collaboration of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse

Who Made Who? On the Creative Collaboration of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse

Mark Braude Considers the Blurred Lines Between Object and Participant, Artist and Muse

By Mark Braude | February 9, 2024

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How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

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Gísli Pálsson on the Undersung Work of the Naturalists John Wolley and Alfred Newton

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Why We Anthropomorphize Animals (and Always Have)

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Hana Videen on the Origins of the Bestiary and Its Role in the Medieval Imagination

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A Rich But Rare Genre: Exploring Islamic Historical Fiction

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Jamila Ahmed Recommends Tariq Ali, Leila Aboulela, Suad Amiry, and More

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On What We Do (And Don’t) Understand About Tornadoes

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Nell Greenfieldboyce on the Science and Mystery Behind One of Weather’s Great Spectacles

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Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

Amanda Chemeche Talks to the Author of “Don’t Call Me Home”

By Amanda Chemeche | February 1, 2024

Paradise Lost: How the Transatlantic Slave Trade Helped Fuel Violent Conflict in West Africa

Paradise Lost: How the Transatlantic Slave Trade Helped Fuel Violent Conflict in West Africa

Hannah Durkin on the Memories of the Survivors of the Slave Ship “Clotilda”

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