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On the Mysteries, Real and Imagined, Surrounding Christopher Columbus

On the Mysteries, Real and Imagined, Surrounding Christopher Columbus

Matthew Restall on the Familiar Political Battleground of Columbus

By Matthew Restall | October 13, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 11, 2025

How the Advent of Modernity Shifted Our Perception of Mass Violence

How the Advent of Modernity Shifted Our Perception of Mass Violence

Bruce Robbins Adds to the Case Against Steven Pinker

By Bruce Robbins | February 10, 2025

No War Is Too Small: How Localized Conflicts Sparked Imperial Violence

No War Is Too Small: How Localized Conflicts Sparked Imperial Violence

From Lauren Benton's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “They Called It Peace”

By Lauren Benton | September 9, 2024

Natasha Wheatley on the Transformation of Empire into Democracy

Natasha Wheatley on the Transformation of Empire into Democracy

Keen On">In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 24, 2023

Rewinding to the Great Indian Empires Before the British Raj

Rewinding to the Great Indian Empires Before the British Raj

Nandini Das Offers a Reading List on Indian Colonial History

By Nandini Das | April 6, 2023

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How Writing Against Empire Helps Heal Its Enduring Wounds

By Tsitsi Dangarembga | January 18, 2023

The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language

By Askold Melnyczuk | May 11, 2022

How a Mundane Anthropologist and Bureaucrat Helped Contribute to American Settler Colonialism

By Alicia Puglionesi | April 14, 2022

The Many Wars Within the Last Great War

The Many Wars Within the Last Great War

Richard Overy on the Second World War Made and the Fall of Global Empires

By Richard Overy | April 8, 2022

on Kashmir">Under Siege: Mirza Waheed<br on Kashmir">

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The Toll of Life Under Lock Down

By Mirza Waheed | September 10, 2019

Reading David Remnick 25 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union

Reading David Remnick 25 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union

Lenin's Tomb">Luke Harding Revisits the Cautious Optimism of Lenin's Tomb

By Luke Harding | August 22, 2019

Walter Mosley: Enough with the Victors Writing History

Walter Mosley: Enough with the Victors Writing History

They Burn Whatever and Whoever Disagrees with Your Conception of the World

By Walter Mosley | September 5, 2018

Imagining Iraq: On the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Iraq War

Imagining Iraq: On the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Iraq War

Philip Metres Offers a Brief History of Imperial Dementia

By Philip Metres | March 20, 2018

The Man Who Brought Avocados to America (And More)

The Man Who Brought Avocados to America (And More)

On David Fairchild, One of the Last Great "Food" Explorers

By Daniel Stone | February 22, 2018

T.J. Stiles: How Do We Explain This National Tragedy? This Trump?

T.J. Stiles: How Do We Explain This National Tragedy? This Trump?

On 400 Years of Tribalism, Genocide, Expulsion, and Imprisonment

By T.J. Stiles | January 31, 2018

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