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    The South

    Imani Perry on Writing the Story of the American South

    By Corinne Segal  January 26, 2022
    Family Stories

    All About My Mother: A Case Study in Fragments

    By Silvina López Medin  January 26, 2022
    Architecture

    The Parkmaker and the Formgiver: On the Creative Friendship That Reshaped the American Streetscape 

    By Hugh Howard  January 26, 2022
    Keen On

    David S. Rudolf on the Dark Side of America’s Criminal Justice System

    By Keen On  January 26, 2022
    Keen On

    Randall Kennedy on the Evolution of the N-Word

    By Keen On  January 26, 2022
    On Racism

    On the Pioneering Black Female Lawyer Who Took Racism to Court

    By Tomiko Brown-Nagin  January 26, 2022
    The Hub

    “Holy shit, did you just say that out loud?” Maggie Gyllenhaal on Ferrante’s novels.

    By Walker Caplan  January 25, 2022
    The Hub

    “The flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave.” 8 of the best uses of water in Virginia Woolf’s novels.

    By Snigdha Koirala  January 25, 2022
    The Hub

    Edith Wharton’s groundbreaking Pulitzer was originally meant for Sinclair Lewis.

    By Walker Caplan  January 25, 2022
    Character

    Place is Not a Character—It is Its Own Story

    By Morgan Thomas  January 25, 2022
    Games

    On the Insanity of Being a Scrabble Enthusiast

    By Oliver Roeder  January 25, 2022
    Keen On

    Michael Brooks on How Mathematics Shapes Our World

    By Keen On  January 25, 2022
    Prohibition

    How American Authors Helped Push an Agenda of “Temperance”

    By Carl Erik Fisher  January 25, 2022
    Archeology

    On the Spiritual and Historical Significance of “Divine Footprints”

    By Francesca Stavrakopoulou  January 25, 2022
    Keen On

    Dave Infante on the World of Booze

    By Keen On  January 25, 2022
    The Hub

    Read Arthur Miller’s steamy love letter to Marilyn Monroe.

    By Walker Caplan  January 24, 2022
    Music

    God of Teenage Appetites: On the Undeniable Allure of Meat Loaf

    By Summer Brennan  January 24, 2022
    The Hub

    Colm Tóibín has been named the new Irish Fiction Laureate.

    By Dan Sheehan  January 24, 2022
    The Hub

    Here are the winners of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.

    By Snigdha Koirala  January 24, 2022
    The Hub

    Watch the new trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio adaptation.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 24, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    Grief and Celebration: On the Traumatic Histories and Beauty of Growth in Soil

    By Emergence Magazine  January 24, 2022
    Death

    Imaginary Dentistry and Real Novels: On My Father’s Deathbed Hallucinations

    By Eileen Pollack  January 24, 2022
    Art and Life

    Pareidolia: Of Patterns, Randomness, and Attention

    By Kate Colby  January 24, 2022
    Dance

    How Paris is Burning Left an Indelible Mark on Pop Culture

    By Ricky Tucker  January 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Margaret O’Mara on How Historians Understand the Presidency of Donald Trump

    By Keen On  January 24, 2022
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