• History

    Copyright

    Did J.D. Salinger Wield Copyright as Self-Protection?

    By Olivia Rutigliano  August 30, 2023
    Literary History

    How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov’s Lolita from Being Published

    By Thomas Harding  August 29, 2023
    Etymologies

    Month-Disease, Flewsa, Lunations: On the Etymology of Periods

    By Jenni Nuttall  August 29, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Greatest Velmas of History and Fiction

    By Shaenon K. Garrity  August 25, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    Rape As a Weapon: A Tragedy Both Ancient and Modern

    By Christina Lamb  August 25, 2023
    Activism

    How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

    By Drew Gilpin Faust  August 24, 2023
    Folk Music

    How the Folkloric Sounds of Rural America Reached the Mainstream

    By John Szwed  August 23, 2023
    Science Writing

    The Female Journalist Who Helped Create the Field of Science Reporting

    By Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette  August 22, 2023
    On Race

    The Battle to Fulfill the Racial Promise of Shaker Heights

    By Laura Meckler  August 22, 2023
    Literary Diplomats

    How Ralph Ellison Brought the Complexity of the American Experience to Europe

    By Harilaos Stecopoulos  August 21, 2023
    Agriculture

    How the Banana Came To Be—And How It Could Disappear

    By Emily Monosson  August 21, 2023
    Indictment

    Efforts That Were Wide-Ranging, Sordid, Chaotic, and Dangerous: Matthew Teague on the Indictment in Georgia

    By Matthew Teague  August 15, 2023
    Toys

    What It Was Like to Design for Barbie

    By Carol Spencer  August 14, 2023
    Photography

    Who Really Invented the Selfie?

    By Matt Colquhoun  August 14, 2023
    Nazi Germany

    “Woman, Jew, Intellectual:” How the Nazi State Saw Hannah Arendt

    By Wolfram Eilenberger  August 10, 2023
    A Little Respect Please

    6 Difficult Women Who Live on in Fiction

    By Elizabeth Fremantle  August 10, 2023
    Sci-Fi

    How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

    By Joshua Glenn  August 7, 2023
    World War I

    How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress’s Life Forever

    By Janet Wallach  August 7, 2023
    Keen On

    Luke Nichter on The Year That Broke Politics: 1968

    By Keen On  August 7, 2023
    Anniversaries

    A Sunset Forever Spoiled: Remembering the Beirut Port Explosion, Three Years Later

    By Tamara Saade  August 3, 2023
    Women at War

    How A Group of High-Flying Women Helped Win World War II

    By Lena Andrews  August 3, 2023
    The Hub

    Dashing! You can now get Jane Austen’s wallpaper in book and wallpaper form.

    By Janet Manley  August 2, 2023
    Rock N Roll

    It Conveyed Them: When The Beatles Recorded “Twist and Shout”

    By David Hepworth  August 2, 2023
    Russia

    “A Small, Vengeful Man:” How Vladimir Putin Began His Iron-Fisted Reign

    By Masha Gessen  July 28, 2023
    American Presidents

    “One of the Greatest in United States History”: On the Friendship Between Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge

    By Laurence Jurdem  July 28, 2023
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