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"illustration of an oil refinery with tentacles reaching out over a map"
12.5.25

On a great translation of a bad spy thriller

"Black and white photo of a man in a hat sitting in front of a painting"
11.19.25

Rethinking Gauguin

"Woman in a teal dress and amber necklace in an parklike setting"
10.15.25

Q&A with Anna Kornbluh

"woman standing in front of a building"
10.8.25

The crime of being a wife: Remembering the women of the Gulag

"A group of men at a construction site with a dump truck in the background"
9.30.25

Reimagining the Nile: The human, political and environmental legacy of Egypt’s Aswan High Dam

5.1.25

Arabic encounters in comparative literature

4.29.25

Q&A with scholar Ato Quayson

4.28.25

Small histories on the St. Louis Metro

Person reading at a table
4.23.25

Teaching Louisa May Alcott in a women’s prison: What literature unlocks

Black and white photo of Charles Mingus playing his standup bass in an outdoor urban setting
4.14.25

Will the real Charles Mingus please stand up

4.10.25

Deep time in the era of doomscrolling

4.7.25

Modern memory: An origin story