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A Night at Max’s Kansas City: Seeing and Being Seen in the 1970s NYC Art World

A Night at Max’s Kansas City: Seeing and Being Seen in the 1970s NYC Art World

Pat Lipsky on the Rival Groups of Artists Looking for Fame in Greenwich Village

By Pat Lipsky | October 9, 2025

How California’s Legacy of Violence Against Indigenous People Impacts the Present Day

How California’s Legacy of Violence Against Indigenous People Impacts the Present Day

Dina Gilio-Whitaker Unpacks the Complexities Surrounding Native Authenticity

By Dina Gilio-Whitaker | October 9, 2025

HarperCollins UK is pulling copies of a book that alleges Epstein introduced Melania and Donald Trump.

HarperCollins UK is pulling copies of a book that alleges Epstein introduced Melania and Donald Trump.

By James Folta | October 8, 2025

How a Democracy Descends Into Murderous Fascism: On Pinochet’s Chile

How a Democracy Descends Into Murderous Fascism: On Pinochet’s Chile

Philippe Sands Explores the Similarities Between Pinochet’s Military Junta and the Nazis

By Philippe Sands | October 8, 2025

To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe

To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe

Ed Simon Explores the Terror of Being Buried Alive and Americanism in Poe’s Work

By Ed Simon | October 8, 2025

Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine

Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine

Ilan Pappé Explores Political Futures in Palestine and Israel

By Ilan Pappé | October 7, 2025

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Funeral For a Postponed Death: On Burying Argentina’s Disappeared

Funeral For a Postponed Death: On Burying Argentina’s Disappeared

Mariana Enriquez: “How beautiful cemeteries are.... Where the name and the date remain, a voice that says: I was here, now I’m gone.”

By Mariana Enriquez | October 2, 2025

Re(se)a(r)ching For Connection: Navigating the Fact and Fiction of Alien Abduction Stories

Re(se)a(r)ching For Connection: Navigating the Fact and Fiction of Alien Abduction Stories

Ilana Masad: “It’s in trying to reach beyond our limited selves that we are, I believe, most human.”

By Ilana Masad | October 2, 2025

Who Was the Real, Historical Mary, Mother of Jesus?

Who Was the Real, Historical Mary, Mother of Jesus?

James D. Tabor on the Lesser-Examined Side of a Central Figure of the Christian Faith

By James D. Tabor | September 30, 2025

When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis

When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis

Christopher C. Gorham on Art Theft and Artistic Solidarity in Occupied France

By Christopher C. Gorham | September 29, 2025

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

Ilan Stavans and Peter Gilliver Discuss the Philosophical and Pragmatic Aspects of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Ilan Stavans | September 29, 2025

What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

Martha A. Sandweiss Unearths the Hidden History Behind a Moment of Westward Expansion Preserved for Posterity

By Martha A. Sandweiss | September 29, 2025

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