• History

    Keen On

    Omar Mouallem on the Unknown History of Islam Across the Americas

    By Keen On  November 5, 2021
    Keen On

    Ben Wilson on the Invention of the City

    By Keen On  November 5, 2021
    Artists

    On Unjustly Forgotten American Abstract Artist Alice Trumbull Mason

    By Meghan Forbes  November 4, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ha Jin on the Importance of Writing Lasting Literature

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 4, 2021
    The Holocaust

    “Was It I Who Came Back Home?” On the Return of Catherine Dior and Other Survivors of Ravensbrück

    By Justine Picardie  November 4, 2021
    European History

    The Lives of Dangerous Books: On the Explosive Rise of Literacy in Tudor England

    By Amy Licence  November 4, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Jessica Nordell on What We Don’t Realize About Unconscious Bias

    By Just the Right Book   November 4, 2021
    The Hub

    Walt Whitman’s letter to a female admirer is the nicest romantic rejection in history.

    By Walker Caplan  November 3, 2021
    Animals

    The Helpful—and Harmful—Consequences of Aesop’s Animal Depictions

    By Jo Wimpenny  November 3, 2021
    Football

    How a Group of Women Defied Expectations to Form a National Football League

    By Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Arcangelo  November 3, 2021
    Marriage

    Marriage Story: On the Volatile Relationship Between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway

    By Judith Mackrell  November 3, 2021
    Indie Booksellers Recommend

    Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This November

    By Literary Hub  November 3, 2021
    Literary History

    The Literary Adventures of Polly Adler, the Algonquin Round Table’s Favorite Madam

    By Debby Applegate  November 2, 2021
    Nonfiction

    The Best New Nonfiction to Read This November

    By Literary Hub  November 1, 2021
    War

    Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

    By Paul Auster  November 1, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Teenage Activist Dara McAnulty on the Necessity of Joy

    By Emergence Magazine  November 1, 2021
    American Presidents

    How Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams Helped Launch the Progressive Party

    By Neil Lanctot  November 1, 2021
    Taboo

    Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

    By Aimee Parkison  October 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Prince Charles has weighed in on the Brontë manuscripts controversy.

    By Walker Caplan  October 28, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Sylvia Plath’s first published poem, which she wrote at age 8.

    By Walker Caplan  October 28, 2021
    The Hub

    Jesse Eisenberg, Jumaane Williams, and more will perform Oedipus Trilogy online.

    By Walker Caplan  October 28, 2021
    Abolition

    How the Potter Josiah Wedgwood Created an Iconic Abolitionist Medallion

    By Tristram Hunt  October 28, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    John Concagh on the Role of African, Caribbean, and Black British Forces in WWII

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 28, 2021
    Counterculture

    “We Were Alive and Life Was Us.” How Ken Kesey Created LSD Subculture

    By Kevin Boyle  October 27, 2021
    World History

    On Centering the Oceanic South and Disrupting the Study of the “Age of Revolutions”

    By Sujit Sivasundaram  October 27, 2021
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