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The Wilde Woman and the Sunflower Apostle: Oscar Wilde in the United States

Art & Architecture, History, Gender & Sexuality

The Wilde Woman and the Sunflower Apostle: Oscar Wilde in the United States

Victoria Dailey

Victoria Dailey looks back at Oscar Wilde’s wild ride through the United States in the early 1880s.

Quantum Conversations, Entanglement, and the American Cold War “Physics Bubble”

Science & Technology, History

Quantum Conversations, Entanglement, and the American Cold War “Physics Bubble”

Michael D. Gordin

Historian of science Michael D. Gordin reviews his former lab partner’s new book on the fuzziness of the quantum world.

Whose Utopia Gets to Be Built?: An Interview with Eric Nusbaum

Politics, History

Whose Utopia Gets to Be Built?: An Interview with Eric Nusbaum

Sam Ribakoff

Chavez Ravine is one of L.A.’s most venerated spots, and also one of its haunted places.

The Keys to Paradise: On Children, Martyrdom, and War

Around the World, Politics, History

The Keys to Paradise: On Children, Martyrdom, and War

Amir Soltani

An Iranian American’s reflections on Flight 752.

Libraries and Authoritarianism 1940, 2020

Politics, History

Libraries and Authoritarianism 1940, 2020

Jeremy Braddock

Jeremy Braddock on Archibald MacLeish and the campaign to make libraries a bulwark against fascists.

Writing Together

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Writing Together

Briallen Hopper

Briallen Hopper appreciates "The Mutual Admiration Society," a new book from Mo Moulton.

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Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Adam J. Fitzgerald

Fatigue and anger, vitamins, of being born at some remove from Sunday, leaving any world untouched, I guess I sing. But

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Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

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Clara Mokri, one of our student correspondents, on the book and the film.                   


Historicizing the Self-Evident: An Interview with Lorraine Daston

Science & Technology, History

Historicizing the Self-Evident: An Interview with Lorraine Daston

Jack Gross

Jack Gross interviews historian of science Lorraine Daston about her early work on rules, which has become newly salient in the age of algorithms.

Small Culture, Big Mistakes

Around the World, Politics, History

Small Culture, Big Mistakes

Philip Ó Ceallaigh

Philip Ó Ceallaigh reviews a well-researched and compelling study of intellectual life in 1930s Romania.

Selling a Charismatic Technology

Science & Technology, History, Cultural Studies

Selling a Charismatic Technology

W. Patrick McCray

Historian of technology Patrick McCray reviews Morgan Ames’s new book on the MIT Media Lab’s One Laptop per Child program.

The Old in the New: Introducing “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish”

Around the World, History, Cultural Studies

The Old in the New: Introducing “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish”

Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert introduce their new anthology, “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish.”

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