Li Zhi’s exasperation with the corruption, greed, and superficiality of the powerbrokers in his society fueled his rebellious writing.

Remembering the famous modernist poet T.S. Eliot with his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal scholarship on Beowulf centers a white male gaze. Toni Morrison focused on Grendel and his mother as raced and marginal figures.

The heroines of 1970s and 80s teen horror movies were traditionally feminine, tough, and sexually confident.

Are whistleblowers heroes or traitors? It depends who you ask.

Well-researched stories from Public Books, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Some scholars have suggested that humans first started growing domesticated grains in order to make not bread, but beer.

In industrial-era England, children took on new value in family life. Around this time, they started to be stolen more often, too.

Proposed changes to the Clean Water Act would make it more difficult to define what bodies of waters are deemed worthy of protection.

Books and other art are often censored for covertly racist reasons.