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History

American Presidents

The Year That Changed James Monroe’s Legacy Forever

By Tim McGrath  May 7, 2020
Plot

Bringing Together Kaleidoscopic Plots: A Reading List

By Anna Solomon  May 7, 2020
Civil Rights

My Grandfather Participated in One of America’s Deadliest Racial Conflicts

By J. Chester Johnson  May 6, 2020
Food

Did the Italians Actually Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?

By Bill Buford  May 5, 2020
Museums

The Louvre Has Survived Wars, Uprisings and Yes, a Plague

By James Gardner  May 5, 2020
Conversations

Anne Carson on Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy

By Sarah Moore  May 4, 2020
Reading Lists

The Writers Vincent van Gogh Loved, From Charles Dickens to Harriet Beecher Stowe

By Mariella Guzzoni  May 4, 2020
Art

At a Fabled Artist’s Colony, Ruth Asawa Found Her Voice

By Marilyn Chase  May 4, 2020
Colonialism

The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research

By Kristen Millares Young  May 4, 2020
Jane Austen

Cassandra Austen: Literary Arsonist, or a Heroine in Her Own Right?

By Gill Hornby  May 1, 2020
Criticism

How Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag Looked at Photos
of Violence

By Pepper Stetler  May 1, 2020
Identity

A History of Gaps: Who Can Tell the Story of the Vietnamese Diaspora?

By Kim-Anh Schreiber  April 30, 2020
Motherhood

The Saint and I: On Augustine and Writing About Mothers

By Natalie Carnes  April 28, 2020
18th Century Literature

On Frances Burney and the Birth of ‘Chick Lit’

By Gina Fattore  April 27, 2020
The Writing Life

Why Are We Obsessed With Writers’ Houses?

By Elisa Wouk Almino  April 27, 2020
Middle East

Syria’s Doomed Struggle for Independence After WWI

By Elizabeth F. Thompson  April 24, 2020
Iraq War

On the Rise and Fall of ISIS

By Patrick Cockburn  April 24, 2020
New York City

The Cast of Characters at Chelsea’s Legendary
Flea Market

By Michael Rips  April 22, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Finding a Way Forward from the Pandemic in the Words of the Poets

By Lawrence Joseph  April 22, 2020
Art

The Decade John Berger Became an Art World Revolutionary

By Joshua Sperling  April 21, 2020
Conspiracies

How the Trump Presidency Became a Hotbed of Conspiracy Theory

By David Rohde  April 21, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

How Did Writers Survive the
First Great Depression?

By Jason Boog  April 20, 2020
Cities

What We Remember When
We Walk in the City

By Lauren Elkin  April 20, 2020
Diets

Misquoting Hippocrates to Promote Diet Culture?

By Helen Morales  April 20, 2020
Swimming

Why Do We Swim?

By Bonnie Tsui  April 16, 2020
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