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What It’s Like to Encounter a Shark When You’re Sailing Alone on the Open Ocean

What It’s Like to Encounter a Shark When You’re Sailing Alone on the Open Ocean

Richard J. King Tells Some Legendary Tales of Sailor-Meets-Ancient Oceanic Predator

By Richard J. King | May 31, 2024

An abridged timeline of <em>Gatsby</em> adaptations.

An abridged timeline of Gatsby adaptations.

Who's the greatest Gatsby of them all?

By Brittany Allen | May 30, 2024

“Invasion is a Structure Not an Event.” On Settler Colonialism and Joseph Conrad’s <em>Heart of Darkness</em>

“Invasion is a Structure Not an Event.” On Settler Colonialism and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Robert G. Parkinson on Historicizing Imperial Encounters at Home and Abroad

By Robert G. Parkinson | May 29, 2024

A protest newspaper is gaining traction. But what's next for The New York War Crimes?

A protest newspaper is gaining traction. But what's next for The New York War Crimes?

By Brittany Allen | May 28, 2024

How Willa Cather Chronicled the Development of American Theater

How Willa Cather Chronicled the Development of American Theater

James Shapiro on the Social and Cultural Impact of Film’s Triumph Over the Stage

By James Shapiro | May 28, 2024

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Anthony Pinn Explores How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Others Embraced a New Black Humanism

By Anthony B. Pinn | May 24, 2024

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Unapologetically Free: A Personal Declaration of Independence From the Formerly Enslaved

By John Swanson Jacobs | May 24, 2024

Libraries rule, cops drool: Today's the birthday of both NYC’s libraries and police.

By James Folta | May 23, 2024

A More Imperfect Union: How Differing National Visions Divided the North and the South

By Alan Taylor | May 21, 2024

What Happens When You Live Strictly According to the Original Constitution in Present Day New York City?

What Happens When You Live Strictly According to the Original Constitution in Present Day New York City?

In Which A.J. Jacobs Carries a Musket Around Manhattan

By A.J. Jacobs | May 16, 2024

What Comes For Us All: Read Elias Canetti on the Many Guises of Death

What Comes For Us All: Read Elias Canetti on the Many Guises of Death

On Those Who End Life and Those Whose Lives End

By Elias Canetti | May 16, 2024

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

Ed Simon Demystifies and Reclaims Pittsburghese

By Ed Simon | May 15, 2024

“I Enjoy It Somethin’ Terrible.” Studs Terkel Talks to Babe Secoli About Her Work as a Supermarket Checker

“I Enjoy It Somethin’ Terrible.” Studs Terkel Talks to Babe Secoli About Her Work as a Supermarket Checker

From “Working,” the Classic Oral History of Americans' Working Lives

By Studs Terkel | May 15, 2024

Kiyo Sato on Japanese American Incarceration’s Language of Dehumanization

Kiyo Sato on Japanese American Incarceration’s Language of Dehumanization

“Here’s the truth: I am now called a non-alien, stripped of my constitutional rights.”

By Kiyo Sato | May 15, 2024

Reading Radically: A Reading List of the 1960s and 70s Protest Movements to Understand Activism Today

Reading Radically: A Reading List of the 1960s and 70s Protest Movements to Understand Activism Today

Jessica Shattuck Recommends Cathy Wilkerson, James Kunen, Abe Peck, and More

By Jessica Shattuck | May 13, 2024

Invisible Women: On the Victorian Custom of Cutting Mothers Out of Portraits

Invisible Women: On the Victorian Custom of Cutting Mothers Out of Portraits

Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Photographic Evidence of Maternal Erasure

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | May 10, 2024

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