• History

    Natural History

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

    By Gísli Pálsson  February 7, 2024
    Myths and Legends

    Why We Anthropomorphize Animals (and Always Have)

    By Hana Videen  February 6, 2024
    Reading Lists

    A Rich But Rare Genre: Exploring Islamic Historical Fiction

    By Jamila Ahmed  February 2, 2024
    Weather

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

    By Nell Greenfieldboyce  February 1, 2024
    Writers in Conversation

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

    By Amanda Chemeche  February 1, 2024
    African History

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

    By Hannah Durkin  January 31, 2024
    World War II

    Sisterhood of the Second World War: On Writing Female Spies’ Classified Adventures

    By CJ Wray  January 31, 2024
    Book Bans

    A Brief History of the Grand Old American Tradition of Banning Books

    By Laura Pappano  January 30, 2024
    Medical history

    More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

    By Gary Taubes  January 26, 2024
    Postcolonialism

    The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

    By Adam Shatz  January 25, 2024
    Film History

    How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

    By Odie Henderson  January 25, 2024
    The Holocaust

    Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

    By József Debreczeni  January 25, 2024
    Reckonings

    What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

    By Danell Jones  January 25, 2024
    Philosophy

    Of Unborn Ghosts and Ancestral Murder; Or, Celebrating the Chaos That Led to Us

    By Brian Klaas  January 24, 2024
    Resistance

    Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

    By Sahar Delijani  January 23, 2024
    Creative Nonfiction

    How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

    By Lee Gutkind  January 23, 2024
    Suburbia

    White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

    By Benjamin Herold  January 23, 2024
    Witches

    How Witches Shifted from Daily Healers to Heretics and Dangerous Women Under Christian Rule

    By Marion Gibson  January 22, 2024
    Subcultures

    Unlocking Reason: How the Deaf Created Their Own System of Communication

    By Moshe Kasher  January 22, 2024
    Gig Economy

    The Cult of the Hustle: Why We All Want to Become Our Own Boss

    By Benjamin C. Waterhouse  January 22, 2024
    Philosophy

    Why Are We Here? On the Philosophical Possibilities of “Cosmic Purpose”

    By Philip Pullman, Philip Goff and Nigel Warburton  January 19, 2024
    Economics

    Nick Romeo on the Profound—and Scary—Influence of Economic Ideas

    By Nick Romeo  January 19, 2024
    Totalitarianism

    Why We Should All Read
    Hannah Arendt Now

    By Lyndsey Stonebridge  January 18, 2024
    Entertainment

    Theater of the Mind: How Radio Brought the World Into American Homes

    By Paul J. Nahin  January 17, 2024
    Politics

    How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rose Up and Won an Underdog Political Victory

    By Joshua Green  January 11, 2024
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