Non-fiction

Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski’s Life’s Work

An Antidote to the Traumatic Experiences of a Wartime Childhood

 
By Jenny Erpenbeck  February 15, 2018
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How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance

By Marilyn Yalom  February 14, 2018
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In Awe of Seabirds at the Edge of the World

By Adam Nicolson  February 7, 2018
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How Wagner Tried to Revolutionize Art and End Capitalism

By Simon Callow  February 7, 2018
Advice

A Few Words of Indispensable Advice from Muriel Spark

By Muriel Spark  February 1, 2018
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A New Generation of Pakistani Women is Changing the Face of the Workforce

By Saadia Zahidi  February 1, 2018
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On the Decision to Publish the Largest Leak in the History of American Power

By Jeff Himmelman  January 10, 2018
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How to Dig a Hole—and Other Pieces of 1,000-Year-Old Wisdom

By Alexander Laglands  January 2, 2018
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Storage Space for the Undead: Inside the Cryonics Business

By Thomas Mira y Lopez  December 28, 2017
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The Fine Art of Learning to Say Nothing in Arabic

By Adam Valen Levinson  December 7, 2017
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How the US Leveraged the Love of Fulbright Scholars like Sylvia Plath

By Merve Emre  December 6, 2017
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On Our Love-Hate Relationship with Punctuation

By Stephen Spector  December 5, 2017
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Laura Ingalls Wilder and One of The Greatest Natural Disasters in American History

By Caroline Fraser  December 5, 2017
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Spare Us Your Elegies: Who Will Advocate for West Virginia?

By Steven Stoll  December 4, 2017
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A Fleeting Resource: In Praise of the Deep Cold

By Miranda Weiss  December 4, 2017
Graphic Novel

A Virtuoso Graphic Novel, Painted While in Hiding From the Nazis

By Literary Hub  December 1, 2017
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Have We Always Been Depressed?

By Lynne Segal  November 29, 2017
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Making Sense of the End of the World

By Robert Jay Lifton  November 20, 2017
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How Forgotten Trailblazer Marjorie Hillis Helped Women Live Alone

By Joanna Scutts  November 20, 2017
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A Brief History of Phantom Islands

By Malachy Tallack  November 20, 2017
How to...

Wishing I Were John McPhee

By Kerri Arsenault  November 15, 2017
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Dan Rather: In Search of What Unites Us from 35,000 Feet

By Dan Rather  November 15, 2017
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How Does It Feel to Die in a Tsunami?

By Richard Lloyd Parry  November 14, 2017
Essay

The Greatest Ever Account of Polar Exploration

By Francis Spufford  November 10, 2017
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A Holy Terror, A Common Scold, and the First Feminist Blogger

By Jeff Biggers  November 10, 2017
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