January 25, 2021
Finding an Audience
On the laws that kept Saadat Hasan Manto’s stories—and the work of his successors—out of readers’ reach.
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January 26, 2021
The scene in Angoulême, a backwater in French Revolutionary politics.
Read MoreJanuary 22, 2021
Cuneiform, Regency romances, and an archaeologist tiff.
Read MoreJanuary 20, 2021
During the 1860 presidential election, political parties dueled over the intent of the framers.
Read MoreJanuary 15, 2021
Whaler art, vaccine rollouts, and a very American mob.
Read MoreJanuary 14, 2021
When Pope Clement VII tested poisons on condemned bodies “for the benefit of the public.”
Read MoreJanuary 12, 2021
The unknown female body in early modern Italy.
Read MoreJanuary 11, 2021
From auctoritas to wasta, the language of the voting public.
Read MoreJanuary 08, 2021
An excuse to read books from 1925, a young and fragile democracy, and an Emily Dickinson adventure.
Read MoreJanuary 01, 2021
Getting ready to hibernate, why we write, and a well-preserved snack bar.
Read More2020:
Whale catches runaway train.
1891:
Whale purportedly houses lost sailor in its stomach.
2020:
An outdoor gender-reveal party in California sparks a wildfire.
1500 BC:
Ancient Egyptian women visit a field of grain daily to determine their babies’ gender.