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How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

Nino Strachey on the Revolutionary Found Family of the Bloomsbury Group

By Nino Strachey | December 15, 2022

How Community Organizers and Business Leaders Came Together to Improve Bedford-Stuyvesant

How Community Organizers and Business Leaders Came Together to Improve Bedford-Stuyvesant

Franklin A. Thomas on the Complex Alliance Between Activists and the Political Establishment in 1960s New York City

By Franklin A. Thomas | December 15, 2022

How Victorian England Put Men on the Moon... Or Not

How Victorian England Put Men on the Moon... Or Not

Iwan Rhys Morus on 19th-Century Fantasies of the Future

By Iwan Rhys Morus | December 14, 2022

The Lingering Weight of Race and Policing in One Cincinnati Neighborhood

The Lingering Weight of Race and Policing in One Cincinnati Neighborhood

Nick Swartsell on Mount Auburn’s Rice Street

By Nick Swartsell | December 14, 2022

An Indelible City, Indelibly Marked: On Hong Kong’s History of Resistance

An Indelible City, Indelibly Marked: On Hong Kong’s History of Resistance

Jerrine Tan Reads Louisa Lim’s Indelible City

By Jerrine Tan | December 13, 2022

How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Into the Mythical “G-Men”

How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Into the Mythical “G-Men”

On the PR Campaign That Changed the Modern FBI

By Beverly Gage | December 12, 2022

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Why World War II’s Greatest Generation Should Be Celebrated As Much For Its Pacifism As For Its Sacrifice in Battle

Why World War II’s Greatest Generation Should Be Celebrated As Much For Its Pacifism As For Its Sacrifice in Battle

Daniel Akst in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Part Bear, Part Bird, Part Monkey, Part Lizard: On the Deep Weirdness of Beavers

Part Bear, Part Bird, Part Monkey, Part Lizard: On the Deep Weirdness of Beavers

Leila Philip on the Evolutionary Puzzles and Unfathomable Intelligence of the Rodent-Engineers

By Leila Philip | December 8, 2022

Erika T. Wurth on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Intergenerational Trauma, and Heavy Metal

Erika T. Wurth on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Intergenerational Trauma, and Heavy Metal

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 8, 2022

Why (Most) Critics Hated <em>The Waste Land</em> When It Was Published

Why (Most) Critics Hated The Waste Land When It Was Published

“It is an erudite despair."

By Jed Rasula | December 8, 2022

On this day in literary history, Anthony Trollope died of the giggles. (For real.)

On this day in literary history, Anthony Trollope died of the giggles. (For real.)

By Emily Temple | December 6, 2022

What Do FDR, Trump, and Lincoln Have in Common? The Worst Transitions of Presidential Power in American History

What Do FDR, Trump, and Lincoln Have in Common? The Worst Transitions of Presidential Power in American History

David Marchick in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 6, 2022

How Language Can Be Used to Destroy and Dominate, and How It Can Be Used to Remember and Reclaim

How Language Can Be Used to Destroy and Dominate, and How It Can Be Used to Remember and Reclaim

Jake Skeets on the Violent Reality and Liberatory Potential of Words

By Jake Skeets | December 5, 2022

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