• History

    Urbanism

    How a Lawyer, a Businessman, and the Mafia Destroyed Public Transit in the Twin Cities

    By Jake Berman  November 27, 2023
    Jewish History

    The Horrific Factory Fire That Killed Jewish Immigrants and Forced the Garment Industry to Alter Its Practices

    By Steven Ujifusa  November 27, 2023
    American History

    How a Mutiny on the Somers Changed America

    By Richard Snow  November 21, 2023
    Chinese Food

    The Marvels of Qu: What Makes Chinese Food and Drink Unique

    By Fuchsia Dunlop  November 21, 2023
    What to Watch

    How the Publicity Campaign for Killers of the Flower Moon Recalls Rosebud Yellow Robe’s 1950 Hollywood Tour

    By Paul Morton  November 20, 2023
    Design

    The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

    By Robert von Goeben  November 20, 2023
    Ireland

    A Cartogropher’s Glorious Paean to the Landscape of Connemara

    By Tim Robinson  November 17, 2023
    Black Feminism

    How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art

    By Courtney Thorsson  November 17, 2023
    Criminal Justice

    How the NYPD Attempted to Navigate Cultural and Linguistic Barriers in the Early 20th Century

    By Matthew Guariglia  November 17, 2023
    Geniuses

    Not Everyone Agreed with Albert Einstein—Including Children, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg

    By Samuel Graydon  November 16, 2023
    Jewish Literature

    How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

    By David Stromberg  November 16, 2023
    In Conversation

    Jenny Erpenbeck on Spying, Lying, and Eros

    By Ellen Adams  November 15, 2023
    Archives

    Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

    By Katherine Churchill  November 15, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    1848: Europe’s Year of Revolt and Revolution

    By Christopher Clark  November 15, 2023
    Willa Cather

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine in Praise of Willa Cather and the American Southwest

    By Kali Fajardo-Anstine  November 14, 2023
    Palestine

    40 Books to Understand Palestine

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2023
    Roundtable

    Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Shakespeare's First Folio

    In Praise of the Tangible Sacredness of the Printed Word

    By Ed Simon  November 13, 2023
    Shakespeare's First Folio

    The 400th Anniversary: Look Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Shakespeare

    Where Everyone is Hamlet: Staging Shakespeare as Political Resistance in China

    By Vikram Nijhawan  November 13, 2023
    Bandits

    The Dalton Gang’s Final, Doomed Heists in the Twilight of the Old West

    By Tom Clavin  November 10, 2023
    Excerpt

    The History of Writing is the History of Humanity

    By Walter Stephens  November 10, 2023
    Art History

    Drip Painting Was Actually Invented by a Ukrainian Grandmother… Not Jackson Pollock

    By Noah Charney  November 9, 2023
    Dictators

    Dinner With A Dictator: What Joseph Stalin Ate

    By Witold Szabłowski  November 9, 2023
    Food

    A Brief History of Onions in America

    By Mark Kurlansky  November 9, 2023
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