The Shrines of September 11th
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, impromptu shrines appeared.
How Teddy Roosevelt Changed Football
Is football too violent? It's a problem Teddy Roosevelt once tried to solve from the White House.
Gabriel García Márquez: Off in the Clouds
A 1987 interview with the author of the beloved books One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
How 9/11 Changed Americans
15 years after 9/11, what are the lasting effects on Americans' psychology?
John Adams’ “On the Transmigration of Souls,” After 9/11
How to memorialize a national tragedy in music?
What Did Manhattan Look Like in 1609?
The Welikia Project recreates a lost vision of Manhattan, one composed of marshes and forest surrounded by wide, meandering rivers.
Alfred Jarry and the Angsty Artist Archetype
French playwright Alfred Jarry and his famous play, "Ubu Roi" may have created the angsty artist archetype we know today.
Star Trek’s 50th Star Date Anniversary
September 8 marks the 50th anniversary of the first season of Star Trek, the NBC science-fiction series produced by Gene Roddenberry.
A Bag of Old Songs from Elsewhere
Sidney Robertson Cowell might be starting to get the attention her rich life, first-rate writing, and broad work as an ethnomusicologist deserve.
Is Writing a Technology or a Language? Let’s Ask Some Aliens
Are written and spoken language really two different things?