Gloriously Grotesque: How the Cherry Sisters Personified “So Bad It’s Good”

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Therese Oneill on the Overlooked Value of Being Your Carefree, Cringeworthy Self

By Therese Oneill | March 11, 2024

17th-Century Dildo Shopping with the Ladies: On the Contested Terrain of Early Modern Desire

17th-Century Dildo Shopping with the Ladies: On the Contested Terrain of Early Modern Desire

Annabelle Hirsch Explores the History of Female Self-Pleasure

By Annabelle Hirsch | March 6, 2024

Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

Jim Mangan and Judith Freeman Chronicle Everyday Life in a Disintegrating Community

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Imagining a World Where Anti-Colonial Fantasy Lit Is the Norm, Not the Exception

Imagining a World Where Anti-Colonial Fantasy Lit Is the Norm, Not the Exception

Melissa Blair on Writing the Indigenous-Centered Book She Wanted as a Schoolchild

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How Richard Wright’s <em>Native Son</em> Eventually Made It to the Big Screen

How Richard Wright’s Native Son Eventually Made It to the Big Screen

Charlene Regester on the Fraught Relationship Between Early Black Writers and the American Film Industry

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Phillipa Gregory on How the Norman Invasion Brought Patriarchy to England

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Uncovering the Incredible Story of a Romance Between Two Prisoners in Auschwitz

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The Sweetness at the Core: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the Positive, Humanizing Power of Fiction

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Considering the Central Role of Community and Solidarity in Stories of Marginalization

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The Man Who Remembered Everything—and Thought It Was Normal

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Charan Ranganath on the Famous Case of Solomon Shereshevsky

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Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

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Visual Disposability: How Photographic Practice Dehumanizes Black Bodies

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Kimberly Juanita Brown on the Long, Global Tradition of the Antiblack Gaze

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The Ever-Present Unseeable Terror: On Millennia of Human-Shark Relations

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Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery Consider Our Fraught Coexistence With the Most Feared of Marine Monsters

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When Your Childhood Belongs to Everyone: Growing Up in a Downtown Manhattan That Changed Forever on 9/11

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Emma Dries on Loft Life Above the Fulton Fish Market and the Day That Everything Changed

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