An excerpt from Iris Moon’s “Melancholy Wedgwood,” an experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood.
Iris Moon | May 9
Clinical psychologist and bestselling author Kay Redfield Jamison explores mood disorders from antiquity to the present, blending science, history, and personal memoir.
Kay Redfield Jamison | May 2
The saga of People's Grocery stands as a powerful reminder of the centrality of Black radicalism to the food justice movement.
Faron Levesque | Apr 26
The saga of Clarence Hiskey, a chemist employed by the Manhattan Project, and Arthur Adams, a spy-runner, has largely fallen down a memory hole.
Harvey Klehr & John Earl Haynes | Apr 18
Eric Ghost's cleverly disguised LSD packaging mirrored the 1960s counterculture's psychedelic vision.
Erik Davis | Mar 25
Matthew Evangelista examines the precedents and possibilities for postwar European security.
Jacqueline L. Hazelton | Feb 22
One can undergo a sublime experience even in the face of a life-threatening force.
David E. Nye | Feb 20
The renowned English writer reflects on the literature that shaped his imagination.
J.G. Ballard | Feb 8
“No matter how severe a human confrontation you are portraying, it immediately becomes mild the instant that even a little green enters into it.”
Nagisa Oshima | Feb 5
“Baltimore” is a love song to a city, tainted by both Simone’s personal experience there and its social and economic struggles.
Alex Coles | Feb 2
