Long before India decriminalized homosexuality—in September 2018—the short story "Lihaaf" sparked outrage and a lawsuit for its depiction of same-sex, intergenerational intimacy.

In the pages of Black Mask magazine, the Continental Op and Race Williams fought the KKK even as they shared its love of vigilante justice.

Duke magazine aimed to celebrate the good life for the era’s growing Black middle-class.

Seventeenth-century scholars were horrified by how much ancient knowledge had been lost when the monasteries dispersed.

In the contemporary United States we tend to expect journalists to separate fact and opinion. It's actually a relatively new phenomenon.

Some of Emily Dickinson's poems were first published in children's magazines, in what one scholar calls a "marketing ploy gone awry."

During the Cold War years, the distribution and selection of American books had to change with changing objectives overseas.

Scholarship traces the birth of the archive to natural philosophers like John Aubrey.

Novel reading was once regarded as an idle occupation, just as Internet use is now.

The beloved Penguin Books is 80 years old.