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A Plethora of Penises: How People Wrote About Sex in the Middle Ages

A Plethora of Penises: How People Wrote About Sex in the Middle Ages

Katherine Harvey on Erotic Expressions in Medieval Literature

By Katherine Harvey | November 17, 2022

Moral Panics Never Go Out of Style: On the Corrosive Effects of the Culture Wars

Moral Panics Never Go Out of Style: On the Corrosive Effects of the Culture Wars

Arlene Stein Considers the Racism and Homophobia at the Heart of Conservative Activism

By Arlene Stein | November 16, 2022

What If... Listicles Are Actually an Ancient Form of Writing and Narrative?

What If... Listicles Are Actually an Ancient Form of Writing and Narrative?

James Vincent on One of Humanity’s Oldest Writing Systems

By James Vincent | November 16, 2022

The Problem with Calling Nature “Wild”

The Problem with Calling Nature “Wild”

“When you seek wildness, where, precisely, do you go?”

By Phillip Vannini and April Vannini | November 16, 2022

A Brief History of the Attempts to Unionize Walmart

A Brief History of the Attempts to Unionize Walmart

Rick Wartzman on the Behemoth’s Antipathy Toward Organized Labor

By Rick Wartzman | November 16, 2022

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

“If you come to live there, come to know it, you will live in other times.”

By Brigitta Olubas | November 15, 2022

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On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

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Cary Grant as The Acrobat: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn’t Really Exist

By Keen On | November 14, 2022

Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin through Their Postcards to Each Other

Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin through Their Postcards to Each Other

Chip Livingston on a Unique Correspondence

By Chip Livingston | November 14, 2022

A Brief History of Shipwrecks in Literature

A Brief History of Shipwrecks in Literature

Alan G. Jamieson on Why Lost Ships Are So Compelling to Writers

By Alan G. Jamieson | November 11, 2022

How Human Curiosity Unlocked the Scientific Secrets of the Universe

How Human Curiosity Unlocked the Scientific Secrets of the Universe

Brian Thomas Swimme on the Scientific Shakespeares Who Made Modern Cosmology

By Brian Thomas Swimme | November 11, 2022

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army

Alexander Rose Talks to Andrew Keen About the American Civil War

By Keen On | November 11, 2022

How Putin Thinks Like a Warmongering 19th-Century Imperialist and Why Ukraine Will Be His Last Colonial War

How Putin Thinks Like a Warmongering 19th-Century Imperialist and Why Ukraine Will Be His Last Colonial War

Mark Galeotti in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 11, 2022

Builders and Destroyers: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe

Builders and Destroyers: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe

Ian Kershaw in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 10, 2022

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Emily Van Duyne’s Tribute to a “Lover of Unreason and an Exile”

By Emily Van Duyne | November 9, 2022

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