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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

The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

The Countess of Carnarvon in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 12, 2022

What the Early 20th-Century War on Radical Workers Tells Us About the Struggle Between Labor and Capital in America Today

What the Early 20th-Century War on Radical Workers Tells Us About the Struggle Between Labor and Capital in America Today

Ahmed White in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 9, 2022

Shame, Silence, and Family Secrets: How Enduring Antisemitism Created False Identities

Shame, Silence, and Family Secrets: How Enduring Antisemitism Created False Identities

Margaret K. Nelson on Concealing and Unearthing Hidden Jewish Heritage

By Margaret K. Nelson | December 9, 2022

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

By Leila Philip | December 8, 2022

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

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

What a Novel Set in the Siberia of 1973 Tells Us About the Soviet Union, Women’s Gymnastics, and Contemporary America

What a Novel Set in the Siberia of 1973 Tells Us About the Soviet Union, Women’s Gymnastics, and Contemporary America

Rae Meadows in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 2, 2022

What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

Lynne Twist in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 2, 2022

Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos on the Suspicious Timing of a Widowing and a Wedding

By Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos | December 1, 2022

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