Why we can't stop writing about what we can't remember

David Brion Davis's trilogy was fifty years in the making, and the final volume was worth the wait

An argument between David Baddiel and Jeffrey Meyers

Doulas and hot tubs aren't better than doctors and hospitals

The false promise of the digital humanities

Here's what they learned about the wedding-industrial complex.

If we blame her for the Trojan War, what does it say about us?

A candidate was accused of being a closet Muslim. In the 18th century, not the 21st.

How the French tome has rocked the tiny Harvard University Press

Everything you need to know about 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'

A Q&A with the author of "Living With a Wild God"

The unhappy history of the workplace

George Kennan's diaries reveal just how much he hated America

An encounter with the literary giant