Raising the Bardo
Amie Barrodale’s contemporary book of the dead
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around…
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions
Described by Artforum as a "fairytale-cum-manifesto", The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions is a series of allegorical vignettes set in the declining empire of Ramrod, ruled by "the men"…
History Extra podcast Zoot suits, mashers & New Romantics: the evolution of the dandy
From zoot suiters and mods, to mashers and Congolese sapeurs, since the early 19th century, fashionable male subcultures have popped up across the globe. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, Peter Andersson…
How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America
Margaret Grace Myers on the Grim Legacy of Ronald Reagan
Poets Square A Memoir in Thirty Cats
By Courtney Gustafson
It’s Only Getting Hotter
Lisa Kwon talks with Sam Bloch about his new book “Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource.”
William F. Buckley’s Bill Never Came Due
This is among the great revelations of Buckley: its subject’s endless willingness to lie. Over and over we watch Buckley slander, deceive, withhold information, and defend the falsity of others.…
The Fraught Rapture of Seeing Other Women Onscreen
Feminist film scholar Lori Jo Marso redresses misconceptions of the gendered gaze, parsing through the lessons we can learn from our exhilaration and unease.