In 1971, eight years after Sylvia Plath died, a dispute over the backstory of her death broke out between her husband Ted Hughes and the poet and critic Al Alvarez. Alvarez, a friend of Plath, publ…

An in-person edit-a-thon that aims to improve the coverage of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints on Wikipedia. No prior experience needed.

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education

On a solemn occasion, Republicans’ message to America’s youth is a promise about their future.

The lost story of September 11 is the story of September 12, the day Muslims in America—from Hakeem Olajuwon on down—woke up to a new reality.

Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set: hyper-rationalists, futurists, effective altruists. Tech-industry guys. Y...

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FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE: Most Anglophone bibliophiles today with an interest in incunabula will be familiar with Goff numbers (referring to Goff’s Incunabula in American Libraries; a Third Census, 1964...