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“The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

“The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

“There were just so many layers and so many colors. Even if all the colors were dark.”

By Dylan Jones | December 5, 2023

Bulent Atalay on the Transgressive Minds of Geniuses

Bulent Atalay on the Transgressive Minds of Geniuses

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 5, 2023

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Edward Moreta Jr. on White Western Nature Writing, JID's 29 (Freestyle), and Longing for Black Representation in Wild Settings

By Edward Moreta Jr. | December 4, 2023

How the Neolithic Age Marked the Beginning of the Modern World

How the Neolithic Age Marked the Beginning of the Modern World

John Charles Chasteen on When Homo Sapiens Became Human, For Better and For Worse

By John Charles Chasteen | December 4, 2023

Rereading My Words in the Midst of Profound Grief

Rereading My Words in the Midst of Profound Grief

Gabriel Bump on His Characters' Personal Tragedy, and His Own

By Gabriel Bump | December 4, 2023

Books That Travel: A Report From the 2023 Nairobi International Book Fair

Books That Travel: A Report From the 2023 Nairobi International Book Fair

Jessica Powers on the Struggles and Rewards of Bringing African Literature to the Global Market

By Jessica Powers | December 4, 2023

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Kliph Nesteroff on the History of Americans Objecting to Comedy

By Keen On | December 4, 2023

Mosab Abu Toha and his family have made it to Egypt.

By Dan Sheehan | December 4, 2023

RIP Shane MacGowan: 7 Pogues Songs That Would Make Great Short Stories

By Jonny Diamond | December 1, 2023

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in December

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in December

The End of the Year Approaches

By Emily Temple | December 1, 2023

Feminine Appetites in Todd Haynes’s <em>May December</em>

Feminine Appetites in Todd Haynes’s May December

Hannah Bonner on the Aesthetics of Tabloid Culture

By Hannah Bonner | December 1, 2023

William B. Eimicke on Making Higher Education More Inclusive and Connected

William B. Eimicke on Making Higher Education More Inclusive and Connected

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 1, 2023

The 10 Best Book Covers of November

The 10 Best Book Covers of November

A Nice Row of Palate Cleansers

By Emily Temple | November 30, 2023

“Is That a First Edition of <em>The Iliad</em>?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

“Is That a First Edition of The Iliad?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

On Constantine Simonides, a Mysterious Stranger in the Cotswolds...

By Christopher de Hamel | November 30, 2023

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Considering Boom for Real: The Late-Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat While Walking Through Baltimore

By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | November 30, 2023

How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill on the Fraught Yet Successful Partnership of Two Industry Titans

By Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill | November 30, 2023

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