Kam Reads and Recs

During a national miners strike, LGBT activists became unexpected allies, united against the Thatcher government.

Nancy Spector’s curation cannot face the racial implications of Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa’s work.

According to court filings, Brady Lum stole more than $600,000 from the Atlanta institution during his nearly seven-year tenure.

The recently renovated Maryland museum also said its donation box was taken in last weekend’s burglary.

When she was growing up, Mia Monroe remembers, monarch butterflies were a natural part of the rhythm of life. This was in the 1960s, and Mia

Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and—in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives Hou

Last year, I put together this list of the most iconic poems in the English language; it’s high time to do the same for short stories. But b

Vernon Lee’s ghost stories explore what it takes to resist male gaslighting and what it means to believe women.

I started my second novel, The Emilys, with a single sentence: “What did I love about going to get the vaccine?” All I knew was that a mom w

In Europe between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, fireworks displays were performances that told a story or symbolized real-world ba

Her student—a former Nazi stormtrooper—was proof that no one was lost to the new regime, that every person might choose to refuse.

While George Washington struggled to obtain reliable maps, British readers could consult this remarkable 1776 atlas.

Without doubt, the novels of my late husband, Oscar Hijuelos, especially the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, are

The first mistake is to imagine the archive as a courtroom. A courtroom wants evidence neatly clipped, sworn in, labeled, dated, signed, and

When we make history fantastic, we remind ourselves that the future has not already been written

Abraham Lincoln proclaimed freedom for enslaved people in America on January 1, 1863. Today, we've annotated the Emancipation Proclamation f