• History

    Democracy

    On America’s Two-Party System… And the Damage It Has Done

    Gabrielle Bellot Tries to Think Beyond the Red/Blue Binary That Makes Enemies of Neighbors

     
    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 23, 2024
    Women in Science

    How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

    By Erin Zimmerman  April 19, 2024
    Free Speech

    PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

    By Literary Hub  April 18, 2024
    The Hub

    What if Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales came out today?

    By James Folta  April 17, 2024
    Cultural History

    How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

    By Adam Kuper  April 17, 2024
    Medical history

    The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

    By Gabriel Brownstein  April 17, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Journalism

    What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

    By Steven W. Thrasher  April 16, 2024
    Aliens?

    Earth? Really? On Why Aliens Would Probably Skip Visiting Our Planet

    By Lisa Kaltenegger  April 16, 2024
    World War I

    How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

    By Michael Korda  April 16, 2024
    Revolutionaries

    The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

    Ed Simon on the Lives and Legacies of Two Icons of Romanticism and Rebellion

    By Ed Simon  April 19, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    By Alissa Quart  April 15, 2024
    Irish History

    How Ordinary Irish Citizens Got Caught Up in the Violence of the Troubles

    By Henry Hemming  April 15, 2024
    Geopolitics

    Considering the Lessons of the Cold War for the Next Great Power Rivalry

    By Adam E. Casey  April 15, 2024
    Colonialism

    How Colonial Powers Fought for Economic Dominance in North America

    Hampton Sides on Britain’s Generations-Long Search for the Northwest Passage

    By Hampton Sides  April 15, 2024
    The Hub

    A syllabus for fans of You Must Remember This.

    By Brittany Allen  April 12, 2024
    Music history

    How Deregulation Destroyed Indie Rock Across America

    By Tom Maxwell  April 12, 2024
    Queer Literature

    More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen…” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

    By Kelly E. Hill  April 12, 2024
    Artists

    What Obituaries Can Tell Us About How the World Views Artists

    Jim Moske Explores the Met Archives For Posthumous Stories Lost to Time

    By Jim Moske  April 11, 2024
    literary criticism

    A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

    By Rebecca Solnit  April 9, 2024
    Russia

    When a 24-Year-Old Ian Fleming Went to Moscow to Cover a “Show” Trial

    By Nicholas Shakespeare  April 9, 2024
    Women's Health

    What the Shadowy History of Women’s Health Tells Us About Its Uncertain Future

    By Clare Beams  April 9, 2024
    Gaza

    Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide

    “Poetry’s belatedness hauntingly echoes international law’s belatedness when it comes to defining genocide.”

    By Philip Metres  April 9, 2024
    On The Self

    Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

    By Mairead Small Staid  April 8, 2024
    Family

    The Past is a Fairy Tale: On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Ireland

    By Clair Wills  April 3, 2024
    Palestine

    Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

    By Ben Ehrenreich  April 15, 2024
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