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How Poetry Can Explain the Role of Music in Medieval Literature

How Poetry Can Explain the Role of Music in Medieval Literature

Graeme Lawson on Heliand, Beowulf and the Development of Musical Notation

By Graeme Lawson | October 27, 2026

Iconic Socialist Jean Jaurès Tried to Keep France Out of WWI. It Cost Him His Life

Iconic Socialist Jean Jaurès Tried to Keep France Out of WWI. It Cost Him His Life

Enda O’Doherty on the Assassination of the French Left‘s Main Face

By Enda O'Doherty | October 27, 2026

Hidden In Plain Sight: What It Meant to Unearth My Father's Decades-Old FBI File

Hidden In Plain Sight: What It Meant to Unearth My Father's Decades-Old FBI File

Aimee Liu Explores the Legacy of McCarthyism and the Red Scare and Its Effects on Her Family

By Aimee Liu | October 26, 2026

Maria Edgeworth: Early 19th-Century Celebrity Novelist and... Key Contributor to the Birth of Classical Economics?

Maria Edgeworth: Early 19th-Century Celebrity Novelist and... Key Contributor to the Birth of Classical Economics?

Jeanna Smialek on the Overlooked History of Regency England's Female Intellectuals

By Jeanna Smialek | October 26, 2026

How Joe Biden and the National Democratic Party Paved the Way For American Fascism

How Joe Biden and the National Democratic Party Paved the Way For American Fascism

Jennifer Welch on the Lasting Impact of the Biden Administration’s Shameful Inaction Post-January 6

By Jennifer Welch | October 26, 2026

This Week in Literary History: The First Ballpoint Pen is Sold in New York City

This Week in Literary History: The First Ballpoint Pen is Sold in New York City

Where “thousands of people all but trampled each other to spend $12.50 each for a new fountain pen.”

By Literary Hub | October 26, 2026

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The Story Behind Edward Hopper’s Iconic Painting, “Nighthawks”

By Louis Shadwick | October 26, 2026

Are Boy Bands the Cure for the Male Loneliness Epidemic?

By G'ra Asim | October 26, 2026

Can Creative Hobbies Actually Change the World?

By Bonnie Smith Whitehouse | October 26, 2026

Here’s the winner of the 2026 Cundill History Prize.

Here’s the winner of the 2026 Cundill History Prize.

By Literary Hub | October 23, 2026

What It Was Like to See Nina Simone at the Village Gate, c. 1961

What It Was Like to See Nina Simone at the Village Gate, c. 1961

Soyica Diggs Colbert on the Ways Black Freedom Movements Influenced the Singer’s Repertoire

By Soyica Diggs Colbert | October 23, 2026

Mohammed Massoud Morsi on Writing About Palestinian Lives Beyond the Headlines

Mohammed Massoud Morsi on Writing About Palestinian Lives Beyond the Headlines

“Turning to fiction allowed for stories that would otherwise have disappeared into the chest of time, to live on.”

By Mohammed Massoud Morsi | October 23, 2026

Why the Broiler Chicken Is the True Symbol of the Anthropocene

Why the Broiler Chicken Is the True Symbol of the Anthropocene

Kyle Harper Considers the Ways Humans Have Remade the Earth For Their Own Benefit

By Kyle Harper | October 23, 2026

How a Love of Salem and <em>The House of Seven Gables</em> Inspired My Debut Novel

How a Love of Salem and The House of Seven Gables Inspired My Debut Novel

Ashley Woo on Otherness, the Darkness of the Past, and How History Shapes Her Writing

By Ashley Woo | October 23, 2026

Why Wikipedia is a Wonder of the Modern World—That We’ll Never See the Likes of Again

Why Wikipedia is a Wonder of the Modern World—That We’ll Never See the Likes of Again

Richard Cooke on the Unique and Multifaceted Role of the Largest Encyclopedia to Ever Exist

By Richard Cooke | October 22, 2026

Holiness and Hedonism: On the Contradictory Duality of American Power

Holiness and Hedonism: On the Contradictory Duality of American Power

Thaddeus Russell Explores the Legacy of the Nation’s Puritan Founding and Those Who Rebelled Against It

By Thaddeus Russell | October 22, 2026

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