• History

    The Quarantine Tapes

    Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., on the Urgency of James Baldwin’s Lessons

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 24, 2020
    Mythology

    Fornicating and Fighting: A Brief History of the Ancient Cult of Aphrodite

    By Bettany Hughes  September 24, 2020
    Keen On

    Why Americans Don’t Care About Their Presidents’ Sex Scandals

    By Keen On  September 24, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Past Is Never Dead: Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Michael Gorra on the ‘New South’ and Whether Faulkner Still Belongs There

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 24, 2020
    Sexuality

    On the “Misogyny Paradox” and the Crisis of Heterosexual Coupledom

    By Jane Ward  September 24, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Colin Dickey on Why Americans Are So Keen to Believe Conspiracies

    By The Maris Review  September 24, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    AC/DC’s Brian Johnson on Jumping Out of Planes and Cursing Mick Jagger

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 24, 2020
    Art History

    Was Abstract Art Actually Invented by a Mid-19th-Century Spiritualist?

    By Jennifer Dasal  September 23, 2020
    Freeman's

    Snapshots Before the War: Saying Goodbye in 1944

    By Paul Hendrickson  September 23, 2020
    Economics

    What Does It Mean To Buy From Black-Owned Businesses?

    By Cassi Pittman Claytor  September 23, 2020
    Keen On

    Don’t Trust the Populists: Globalization Isn’t the Problem

    By Keen On  September 23, 2020
    Injustice

    Was a Lakota Sioux Wrongly Accused of Murder During the Wounded Knee Occupation?

    By Gerry Spence  September 23, 2020
    The Hub

    Happy 185th wedding anniversary to Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Clemm.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 22, 2020
    Letters Home

    The Fault Lines of Midwestern
    Racism Run Deep

    By Amaud Jamaul Johnson  September 22, 2020
    Prizes

    WATCH: The Shortlist Announcement for the 2020 Cundill History Prize

    By Literary Hub  September 22, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Writing a History of a Pandemic During a Pandemic

    By Jon Sternfeld  September 22, 2020
    Capitalism

    The Long Golden Age of Useless, American Crap

    By Wendy A. Woloson  September 21, 2020
    Nazi Germany

    Indifference and Cruelty: What Made Nazi Germany Possible

    By Géraldine Schwarz  September 21, 2020
    Poetry

    The Poet Who Had No Time
    for Tragedy

    By Dan Beachy-Quick  September 21, 2020
    First Draft

    Peter Geye on the Concept of Longing in Fiction

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 21, 2020
    The History of Literature

    On Enheduanna, the First Poet to Ascribe Her Own Name to Her Works

    By History of Literature  September 21, 2020
    Keen On

    Is America Due for a Reboot?

    By Keen On  September 21, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Language Keepers: On the Fight to Save the Karuk Language

    By Emergence Magazine  September 21, 2020
    On Race

    I spoke with a friend of Robert and Mabel Williams about Negroes With Guns and BLM.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 18, 2020
    Conservatism

    President Lincoln’s Republican Party Was the Original Party of Big Government

    By Peter Balakian  September 17, 2020
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