October 04, 2018
How Lorraine Hansberry Saw Herself
The author of Looking for Lorraine shares a revealing self-portrait.
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October 04, 2018
The author of Looking for Lorraine shares a revealing self-portrait.
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What did the memory of Nathaniel Johnson mean to his brother Samuel?
Read MoreOctober 02, 2018
From shipwrecks to Couto Mixto, Galicia has long been home to contraband.
Read MoreOctober 01, 2018
Fritz Houtermans at the beginning—and nearly the end—of the world.
Read MoreSeptember 28, 2018
A long-lost letter, a modern Melville, and “macabre artifacts.”
Read MoreSeptember 26, 2018
Imagining book recommendations from a life of letters.
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2018
Whether the problem was an arrowhead, a beating, or being visible, Middle English manuscripts from the fifteenth century offered solutions.
Read More2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.