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How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

H. W. Brands on the Early Life of an American Avenger

By H.W. Brands | October 14, 2020

Rumaan Alam Recommends the Music of <em>Leave the World Behind</em>

Rumaan Alam Recommends the Music of Leave the World Behind

This Week on the So Many Damn Books Podcast

By So Many Damn Books | October 14, 2020

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon's Descent to War

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon's Descent to War

From Kim Ghattas's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Black Wave

By Kim Ghattas | October 14, 2020

The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

From Richard M. Eaton's Cundill Prize-Nominated
India in the Persianate Age

By Richard M. Eaton | October 14, 2020

How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States' Influence in the Middle East

How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States' Influence in the Middle East

From Rashid Khalidi's Cundill Prize-Nominated
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

By Rashid Khalidi | October 14, 2020

On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

From Roderick Beaton Greece's Cundill-Prize Nominated Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

By Roderick Beaton | October 14, 2020

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The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

By Vincent Brown | October 14, 2020

The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

By Paul Lay | October 14, 2020

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

By Claudio Saunt | October 14, 2020

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

From Kerri K. Greenidge's Cundill-Prize Nominated Black Radical

By Kerri K Greenidge | October 14, 2020

What Progressives Could Accomplish by Merging the Fights for Racial and Economic Justice

What Progressives Could Accomplish by Merging the Fights for Racial and Economic Justice

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | October 14, 2020

Bryan Washington's new novel will be adapted for television.

Bryan Washington's new novel will be adapted for television.

By Corinne Segal | October 13, 2020

Aleksandar Hemon has been awarded the 2020 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.

Aleksandar Hemon has been awarded the 2020 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.

By Rasheeda Saka | October 13, 2020

Your favorite modern horror movies, reimagined as '70s mass market paperbacks.

Your favorite modern horror movies, reimagined as '70s mass market paperbacks.

By Emily Temple | October 13, 2020

Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

The Author of Kant's Little Prussian Head Recommends Five Essential Collections

By Claire Messud | October 13, 2020

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

From Julius Margolin's Memoir of Life in the Gulag

By Julius Margolin | October 13, 2020

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