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History
As a kid, George Orwell practiced black magic on a bully—and it worked.
By
Walker Caplan
| January 21, 2022
The Complicated History of the
Black Joke
, the Ship That Battled the Slave Trade
A.E. Rooks on the Ongoing Repercussions of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
By
A.E. Rooks
| January 21, 2022
“Bedtrick is a Lie About Sex.” Jinny Webber on the Layered Meaning Behind the Title of Her Novel
In Conversation with C. P. Lesley on the
New Books Network
By
New Books Network
| January 21, 2022
Can Generation Z Save America? (And Should They Have To?)
John Della Volpe Wonders If Demography Can Save Democracy
By
John Della Volpe
| January 20, 2022
Zora Neale Hurston on What White Publishers Won’t Print
And How “Public Indifference” Reinforces the Status Quo
By
Zora Neale Hurston
| January 20, 2022
“Poetry Wedded to Science.” On the Love and Legacy of Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman
Julie Dobrow Investigates the Political Implications of Interracial Marriage in 19th-Century America
By
Julie Dobrow
| January 20, 2022
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The Smell of Sun Cream: Glimpses of the Outside World from Communist Albania
By
Lea Ypi
| January 20, 2022
Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives
By
Janice P. Nimura
| January 19, 2022
Nikole Hannah-Jones Lets Martin Luther King Jr. do the talking on Critical Race Theory.
By
Jonny Diamond
| January 18, 2022
How Humans Learned to Count, Thus Opening the World
Michael Brooks on the Surprising Sophistication of “Finger-Counting”
By
Michael Brooks
| January 18, 2022
The Man Who Quietly Built a Massive Archive of Artists’ Deaths
A Report from the Archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By
Jim Moske
| January 18, 2022
Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”
"In putting race and aesthetics in conversation with one another, Locke forever changed our understanding of both.”
By
Jeffrey C. Stewart
| January 18, 2022
Émile Zola was a bad art friend.
By
Walker Caplan
| January 14, 2022
Exit Wounds: On the Roots of Violence—and Its Complicated Aftermath
"Fear nests within other fears, is encircled by it."
By
Jonathan Gleason
| January 14, 2022
James Joyce was only 9 years old when he published his first poem.
By
Walker Caplan
| January 13, 2022
Leigh Stein on Reading Anne Frank During Quarantine
On the Extraordinary Work of Diarists to Create Meaning from Dramatic, Quotidian Times
By
Leigh Stein
| January 13, 2022
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K. Valentin
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