Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems

Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems

Jennifer Saint on Feminist Retellings of Ancient Stories

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Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible

Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible

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How “My Old Kentucky Home” Is a Sonic Monument to a Segregated America

How “My Old Kentucky Home” Is a Sonic Monument to a Segregated America

Emily Bingham in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

Rosalyn Story on Discovering Jones' Personal Scrapbook

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We Are in a Golden Age of Historical Fiction for People of Color

We Are in a Golden Age of Historical Fiction for People of Color

Jasmin Darznik on How the Untold Stories of the Past Resonate Today

By Jasmin Darznik | April 29, 2022

Why Robert Hanssen Was America’s Most Damaging Spy

Why Robert Hanssen Was America’s Most Damaging Spy

Lis Wiehl in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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“We don’t want charity. We want jobs!” At the Intersection of the Labor and Disability Rights Movements

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Kim Kelly on the Disabled Miners Who Fought for Legal Protection

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Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

Pamela Erens on Middlemarch and the Moral Value of Fiction

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How the Disappearance of the Dinosaurs Created an Hospitable World for Humans

How the Disappearance of the Dinosaurs Created an Hospitable World for Humans

Riley Black on the Causes and Consequences of the Great Extinction

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Kim Kelly Reads From Her Book, <em>Fight Like Hell</em>

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“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

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Julie Phillips Considers the Groundbreaking British Mother-Writers of the 1960s, from A.S. Byatt to Lorna Sage

By Julie Phillips | April 26, 2022

Has the Second World War Ended Yet?

Has the Second World War Ended Yet?

Richard Overy in Conversation With Andrew Keen

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On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

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Katie Bennett Measures the Emotional Toll of Writing a Feminist Recovery Story

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