In her new book, Normal Gossip podcaster Kelsey McKinney explores our unending interest in talking about other people behind their backs

A picture of the glory days of Awadh in the eighteenth century, the book draws connections between global events of the time, the struggle for power...

In our latest book recommendation, historian Kai Mora compiles a list of books that shaped Black history over the last century. From a book about the...

Snappy movement and a Billy Nomates score can’t make up for the lack of emotional range in this portrait of the 18th-century writer

As someone who sees Napoleon as one of history’s more prodigious and transformative figures (notice I didn’t say angelic or deeply moral), I was...

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In “The Secret Public,” Jon Savage traces how music helped popularize queer culture, from the 1950s through the heyday of disco.

Listening to birds benefits our mental health, leading to less stress and paranoia. Birdsongs have inspired poets and lovers, becoming one of the...

The aging leader wanted to shake up his country, so he launched a second revolution with the help of a cadre of young people. Drunk with power, the...