• History

    Geniuses

    Not Everyone Agreed with Albert Einstein—Including Children, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg

    Samuel Graydon on Three Moments in the Life of the Scientist

     
    By Samuel Graydon  November 16, 2023
    In Conversation

    Jenny Erpenbeck on Spying, Lying, and Eros

    By Ellen Adams  November 15, 2023
    Archives

    Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

    By Katherine Churchill  November 15, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    1848: Europe’s Year of Revolt and Revolution

    By Christopher Clark  November 15, 2023
    Willa Cather

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine in Praise of Willa Cather and the American Southwest

    By Kali Fajardo-Anstine  November 14, 2023
    Palestine

    40 Books to Understand Palestine

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Roundtable

    Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Shakespeare's First Folio

    In Praise of the Tangible Sacredness of the Printed Word

    By Ed Simon  November 13, 2023
    Shakespeare's First Folio

    The 400th Anniversary: Look Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Jewish Literature

    How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

    David Stromberg on the Artistic Vision of the Polish-Born American Nobel Laureate

    By David Stromberg  November 16, 2023
    Bandits

    The Dalton Gang’s Final, Doomed Heists in the Twilight of the Old West

    By Tom Clavin  November 10, 2023
    Excerpt

    The History of Writing is the History of Humanity

    By Walter Stephens  November 10, 2023
    Art History

    Drip Painting Was Actually Invented by a Ukrainian Grandmother… Not Jackson Pollock

    By Noah Charney  November 9, 2023
    Dictators

    Dinner With A Dictator: What Joseph Stalin Ate

    Witold Szabłowski on the Culinary Habits and Preferences of the Soviet Strongman

    By Witold Szabłowski  November 9, 2023
    Food

    A Brief History of Onions in America

    By Mark Kurlansky  November 9, 2023
    Twins

    Is There Any Bond Stronger than Twinship?

    By Helena de Bres  November 8, 2023
    Reckonings

    How Two Versions of a Family Story Sparked a Writer’s Quest for Truth

    By Grace Elizabeth Hale  November 8, 2023
    Community

    Whose Community Is It Anyway?

    Casey Plett on how Politicians, Media, and Corporations Co-Opt Language

    By Casey Plett  November 7, 2023
    Jane Austen

    How American Critics Originated Jane Austen Scholarship

    By Juliette Wells  November 6, 2023
    Family History

    In Search of Hidden Family History in the Late Ottoman Empire

    By Alice Sparberg Alexiou  November 6, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    On Art, Music and the Humanist Spirit in the Face of Nazi Atrocities

    By Jeremy Eichler  November 6, 2023
    World War II

    The Lifesaving Potential of Latin American Passports in the Warsaw Ghetto

    Roger Moorhouse on the Story of the Desperately Sought-After Document

    By Roger Moorhouse  November 6, 2023
    Antifascism

    Laughing At Evil: When Charlie Chaplin Brought Hitler to the Big Screen

    By Scott Eyman  November 3, 2023
    Hollywood

    How 1950s Hollywood Tried (and Failed) to Make Literary Adaptations Big

    By Foster Hirsch  November 3, 2023
    Shakespeare

    Where Everyone is Hamlet: Staging Shakespeare as Political Resistance in China

    By Vikram Nijhawan  November 13, 2023
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