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What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

Michael Blanding on the (Extremely Compelling) Sir Thomas North Theory

By Michael Blanding | May 31, 2022

Why the “Bad Gays” of History Deserve More Attention

Why the “Bad Gays” of History Deserve More Attention

And What they Can Teach Us About Liberation

By Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller | May 31, 2022

On Hitler’s Boy Soldiers: Can Germans Ever Forget the Second World War?

On Hitler’s Boy Soldiers: Can Germans Ever Forget the Second World War?

Helene Munson in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 31, 2022

When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever

When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever

“And so started a summer of Brits, young and old, doing everything they could to be just like Marilyn.”

By Michelle Morgan | May 27, 2022

Caroline Elkins on the Gruesome Rule of the British Empire

Caroline Elkins on the Gruesome Rule of the British Empire

This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon

By Open Source | May 27, 2022

How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected

How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected

Marco Belpoliti on Collective Memory and Publishing in Post-War Italy

By Marco Belpoliti and Clarissa Botsford | May 26, 2022

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The Dazzling, Treacherous World of New York City Real Estate

By Adam Piore | May 26, 2022

Simon Parkin on an Unlikely Group of WWII Internees on the Isle of Man

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | May 26, 2022

Is it Possible to Change the Way We Think About Work?

By Book Dreams | May 26, 2022

On the Radical, Popular Creator of the First Female Superhero

On the Radical, Popular Creator of the First Female Superhero

How June Tarpé Mills Captured Audiences

By Tracy Dawson | May 25, 2022

Morgan Talty on Indigenous Literature, Penobscot Culture, and the Villain of Colonialism

Morgan Talty on Indigenous Literature, Penobscot Culture, and the Villain of Colonialism

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | May 25, 2022

Remembering (And Mourning) The Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington D.C.

Remembering (And Mourning) The Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington D.C.

George Stevens, Jr. in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 25, 2022

How Leonardo Da Vinci Became the Ultimate Renaissance Man

How Leonardo Da Vinci Became the Ultimate Renaissance Man

Eden Collinsworth on the Intellectual and Artistic Development of One of History’s Greatest Geniuses

By Eden Collinsworth | May 24, 2022

Photographing Communism(s) and What Life Really Looked Like in Cold War Eastern Europe

Photographing Communism(s) and What Life Really Looked Like in Cold War Eastern Europe

Arthur Grace in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 24, 2022

A Few Notes on the Past (and Possible Future) of Public Mourning

A Few Notes on the Past (and Possible Future) of Public Mourning

A.J. Bermudez on Technology, Community, and Grief

By A. J. Bermudez | May 23, 2022

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza Considers X as a Symbol of Prohibition and Expansion

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza | May 20, 2022

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