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A Brief History of Shipwrecks in Literature

A Brief History of Shipwrecks in Literature

Alan G. Jamieson on Why Lost Ships Are So Compelling to Writers

By Alan G. Jamieson | November 11, 2022

How Human Curiosity Unlocked the Scientific Secrets of the Universe

How Human Curiosity Unlocked the Scientific Secrets of the Universe

Brian Thomas Swimme on the Scientific Shakespeares Who Made Modern Cosmology

By Brian Thomas Swimme | November 11, 2022

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army

Alexander Rose Talks to Andrew Keen About the American Civil War

By Keen On | November 11, 2022

How Putin Thinks Like a Warmongering 19th-Century Imperialist and Why Ukraine Will Be His Last Colonial War

How Putin Thinks Like a Warmongering 19th-Century Imperialist and Why Ukraine Will Be His Last Colonial War

Mark Galeotti in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 11, 2022

Builders and Destroyers: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe

Builders and Destroyers: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe

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By Keen On | November 10, 2022

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Emily Van Duyne’s Tribute to a “Lover of Unreason and an Exile”

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Alia Trabucco Zerán on Writing About Women Who Kill

By Alia Trabucco Zerán | November 9, 2022

Our Man in Tokyo: Could Pearl Harbor Have Been Avoided With More Skillful American Diplomacy?

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Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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How Grief and Revenge Made Geronimo Into a Legendary War Chief

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Before Geronimo Became the Apaches’ Fabled War Commander, He Lost Everything

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On Atlanta’s Essential Role in the Making of American Hip-Hop

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Joe Coscarelli Considers the City’s Alternating History of Oppression and Opportunity

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What It Was Like to Be a Jew in Lincoln’s Civil War Army

What It Was Like to Be a Jew in Lincoln’s Civil War Army

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Four Ukrainian Writers on Literature, Solidarity, and the Future of Justice

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Inside <em>High Noon</em>: Why the 1952 Classic is as Relevant Today as It Was 70 Years Ago

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