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Discovering Franz Kafka’s Nearly-Lost Drawings

Discovering Franz Kafka’s Nearly-Lost Drawings

Andreas Kilcher on the “Grotesque, Carnivalesque” Inventions

By Andreas Kilcher | June 1, 2022

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Challenge of Writing Satire in Present-Day America

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Challenge of Writing Satire in Present-Day America

The Author of The Evening Hero in Conversation with Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | June 1, 2022

The Myth of the Rapid Mobility of European Immigrants

The Myth of the Rapid Mobility of European Immigrants

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on the Data Illusion of the Rags-to-Riches Stories

By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan | June 1, 2022

Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?

Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?

Clayton Wickham on the Imagined Histories of Danielle Dutton and Benjamin Labatut

By Clayton Wickham | May 31, 2022

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

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

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When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever

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Caroline Elkins on the Gruesome Rule of the British Empire

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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

The Dazzling, Treacherous World of New York City Real Estate

The Dazzling, Treacherous World of New York City Real Estate

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By Adam Piore | May 26, 2022

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

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

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

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

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

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

James Suzman Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

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

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