• History

    Indigenous History

    On the History of Powhatan Culture and Colonization: A Reading List

    By Brian Swann  October 1, 2021
    New in Nonfiction

    New and Noteworthy Nonfiction to Read This October

    By Literary Hub  September 30, 2021
    Anne-Marie Slaughter

    Anne-Marie Slaughter on Radical Honesty as a Key to Growth

    By Keen On  September 29, 2021
    The Hub

    This year’s literary MacArthur fellows on the best writing advice they’ve received (and more).

    By Corinne Segal  September 28, 2021
    War

    The New Weapons of War: Disinformation, Economic Coercion, and Online Disruption

    By Seth G. Jones  September 28, 2021
    Disaster

    How Should Nations Handle the Human Aftermath of Disasters?

    By Robert A. Jensen  September 28, 2021
    Keen On

    Joseph Weisberg on Russia and America, the Very Best of Enemies

    By Keen On  September 28, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2021
    Evolution

    We Owe Our Entire Existence to a Bunch of Long-Necked Mouth-Breathers

    By Elsa Panciroli  September 27, 2021
    Fascism

    Ezra Pound’s Unrepentant Ties With Fascist Italy

    By Lauren Arrington  September 27, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Bathsheba Demuth on the Changing Landscapes of the Arctic Circle

    By Emergence Magazine  September 27, 2021
    The Hub

    I’m still thinking about the boy who legally changed his name to “Trout Fishing in America.”

    By Walker Caplan  September 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s how Pablo Neruda’s funeral became a left-wing demonstration.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Now you can browse F. Scott Fitzgerald’s papers, including Gatsby manuscripts, online.

    By Walker Caplan  September 24, 2021
    Sex

    Centuries Before Fifty Shades, A Runaway Hit About Kinky Sex

    By Leigh Cowart  September 24, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Climate Change is Here… So How Do We Adapt?

    By Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani  September 24, 2021
    New Books Network

    P. Djèlí Clark on Imagining an Anti-Colonial 1900s Cairo

    By New Books Network  September 24, 2021
    Open Source

    How Can We Recapture the Ambition and Hope of the Space-Race Days?

    By Open Source  September 24, 2021
    European History

    On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette

    By Nancy Goldstone  September 23, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 23, 2021
    Aristocracy

    On the End of Debutante “Presentation Parties” at Buckingham Palace

    By Adrian Tinniswood  September 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Sathnam Sanghera on Modern Britain’s Imperialistic Foundations

    By Keen On  September 23, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Napoleon by Ruth Scurr, read by Tanya Cubric

    By Behind the Mic   September 23, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Séan Scullion on the Spanish Volunteers that Fought with the British Army During the Second World War

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 23, 2021
    Art

    “Paris is Paris. There is But One.” On Van Gogh’s Painterly Relationship to France

    By Gloria Fossi  September 22, 2021
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