• History

    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
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    On the Battle of Britain, a Fight Waged in Daylight

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 17, 2020
    Refugees

    Finding Strange Magic and Unlikely Love During the Vietnam War

    By Lan Cao  September 16, 2020
    Keen On

    David Nasaw on the Million Refugees Left Behind in Germany After WWII

    By Keen On  September 16, 2020
    WWII

    Finding a Home for the Last Refugees of World War II

    By David Nasaw  September 15, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Social Cachet and Souvenirs: A Brief History of Modern Tourism

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   September 15, 2020
    The Hub

    The Langston League has created an episode-by-episode syllabus for Lovecraft Country.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 14, 2020
    Classical Music

    Alex Ross on Wagner’s Complicated Influence on American Culture

    By Alex Ross  September 14, 2020
    Research

    The Countess Who Wanted to be the Most Photographed Woman in the World

    By Nathalie Léger  September 14, 2020
    Latin American Literature

    Did a Revolution in Latin American Publishing Make One Hundred Years of Solitude the Success It Is Today?

    By Álvaro Santana-Acuña  September 11, 2020
    Language

    Are New Yorkers Really as Rude as Everyone Thinks They Are?

    By E.J. White  September 10, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What the US Could Learn From the Eastern Band Cherokee Indians’ Pandemic Response

    By Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle  September 10, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Senator Chris Murphy on Who’s to Blame For Rioting in American Cities

    By Just the Right Book   September 10, 2020
    Civil Rights

    After Reconstruction, Black Women Found Opportunity for Revolt in Church

    By Martha S. Jones  September 10, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Maaza Mengiste on How Writing and Justice Are Intertwined

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 10, 2020
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