History

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem Fought For Your Right to Get a Beer

Mallory O’Meara on a Surprising Gender Discrimination Case

 
By Mallory O'Meara  October 15, 2021
Events

No Billionaires Detected: What It Was Like to Walk on the Moon in the Summer of 1971

By Earl Swift  July 21, 2021
History

On the Our Town Spin-Off That Served as WWII Spirit Building

By Howard Sherman  February 17, 2021
History

How Did Artists Survive the First Great Depression?

By David A. Taylor  June 29, 2020
History

The Black Descendants of President Madison

By Bettye Kearse  March 25, 2020
History

On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

By Camilla Townsend  December 19, 2019
History

On the Snarky Poem That Got Its Author Murdered

By Emily Temple  September 17, 2019
Archives

James Baldwin: ‘I Never Intended to Become an Essayist’

By Literary Hub  March 20, 2019
Excerpts

Samuel Beckett, Thrower of Shade

By Frederic Pajak  March 18, 2019
Criticism

Honoré de Balzac’s Legendary Love Affair With His Anonymous Critic

By Emily Temple  March 14, 2019
Essay

On the Hidden History of Queer Women in Baseball

By Britni de la Cretaz  March 13, 2019
Excerpts

The Time I Met New York’s Patron Saint of Typewriters

By Thaisa Frank  March 12, 2019
Archives

From Shakespeare to Tolkien, Treasures from the NYC Antiquarian Book Fair

By Sarah Funke Butler  March 8, 2019
Excerpts

Dictators Kill Poets: On Federico García Lorca’s Last Days

By Aaron Shulman  March 5, 2019
Essay

Writing Absurdity in Zimbabwe’s Contemporary Dystopia

By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma  January 29, 2019
Essay

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

By Emily Temple  January 25, 2019
Excerpts

David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian ‘New’ World

By David Treuer  January 22, 2019
Excerpts

Did Lao-Tzu and Confucius Know Each Other?

By John Minford  December 17, 2018
History

It’s Been 25 Years Since Kurt Cobain’s Last Rites, Nirvana’s Unplugged Show

By Lynn Crosbie  December 14, 2018
History

Scenes from a Life in 1930s Berlin

By Jeffrey Koenig  November 29, 2018
Biography

Co-Parenting with Lord Byron, As Weird As It Sounds

By Miranda Seymour  November 12, 2018
Excerpts

The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

By Eric Karpeles  November 7, 2018
Excerpts

America, Waging Unpopular Wars Right from the Start!

By Michael Beschloss  October 26, 2018
Excerpts

Worst Pope of All Time?

By Simon Sebag Montefiore  October 17, 2018
Excerpts

On the British Brothers Who Infiltrated Nazi-Occupied France

By Charles Glass  September 28, 2018
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