On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion of... Read more »
In the nineteenth century, when a character had premarital sex, you held your breath not for an abortion but for a wedding. Think of “Pride and Prejudice,” where Lydia’s child marriage comes... Read more »
75th Anniversary Date and Time March 18, 20249:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ET Location Virtual or in person at the National Archives Building (701 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC) Overview As part of its yearlong... Read more »
In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries... Read more »
After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives,... Read more »
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, an urban observation series created by Ellis Avery and curated by Abigail Struhl. In the morning, when the shops are still opening at Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan,... Read more »
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month. The post On Our Nightstands: January 2022 appeared first on Public Books. Source link Read more »
This past August marked 30 years since Hurricane Andrew pummeled the Caribbean and south Florida. On August 23, 1992, Andrew made landfall on the Bahamas’s Eleuthera Island as a Category 5 hurricane.... Read more »
Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood is a political novel with a difference. Most political novels deploy characters as symbols. To denounce totalitarianism, Animal Farm depicts dictators as pigs. To promote individualism, The Fountainhead... Read more »