• History

    Nightlife

    The Center of the Universe? Capturing New York City 90s Nightlife

    By Gabriel Sanchez  October 20, 2020
    Keen On

    Why Should We Care About So-Called Genius?

    By Keen On  October 20, 2020
    Revolutions

    The Complicated Resistance Efforts of Enslaved Women in the West Indies

    By Stella Dadzie  October 20, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    How Capitalism Shaped Our Modern Image of Dinosaurs

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   October 20, 2020
    Discovering Old Manuscripts

    How a Rare and Ancient Manuscript Moved Me to Write a Novel

    By Natalka Burian  October 19, 2020
    Republicanism

    The GOP Lost Its Way Long Before Trump

    By Carlos Lozada  October 19, 2020
    Photography

    What Does It Mean to Look at Photos of Imagined Violence?

    By Sarah Sentilles  October 19, 2020
    New Books Network

    What Heidegger’s Nazism Means for Modern Philosophy

    By New Books Network  October 19, 2020
    Criticism

    The Delight of Daniel Mendelsohn

    By James K.A. Smith  October 16, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Kathryn Lasky on the Character Perspective That Most
    Interests Her

    By NewberyTart   October 16, 2020
    The Hub

    A Shakespeare First Folio sold this week for $10 million.

    By Corinne Segal  October 15, 2020
    Dictators

    From Napoleon to Trump, on the
    Tyrant As Troll

    By Liesl Schillinger  October 15, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Rebecca Solnit on Black Swans, Slim Chances, and the 2020 Presidential Election

    By Rebecca Solnit  October 15, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Jason Diamond on Suburban Sprawl, AKA Attack of the Blob

    By The Maris Review  October 15, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Fatima Bhutto: No One Who Has Suffered the Handprint of America Is Surprised by Police Brutality

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 15, 2020
    Keen On

    How Neoliberalism Created the New Age of Monopolies

    By Keen On  October 15, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Hitler’s Tiger Tanks: When Symbols of Invasion Become Tourist Attractions

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 15, 2020
    Singer Songwriters

    How Does the Great Dolly Parton Write a Song?

    By Lydia R. Hamessley  October 14, 2020
    Keen On

    Voting Isn’t Guaranteed—Black Women Know That Better Than Anyone

    By Keen On  October 14, 2020
    Philosophy

    On Jewish Community and Identity in Jacques Derrida’s Algeria

    By Peter Salmon  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

    By Literary Hub  October 14, 2020
    Black Music

    Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

    By Anaïs Duplan  October 14, 2020
    Abolition

    How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

    By H.W. Brands  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon’s Descent to War

    By Kim Ghattas  October 14, 2020
    Cundill History Prize

    The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

    By Richard M. Eaton  October 14, 2020
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