Hemingway’s First

August 13: On this day in 1923 Ernest Hemingway published his first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems. Hemingway had arrived in Paris two years earlier, an unpublished twenty-two-year-old journalist with a recent bride, a handful of letters of introduction provided by...

Fordlandia

August 12: The first Model T car rolled off the assembly line on this day in 1908. The “Tin Lizzie,” and the “Fordism” that came with it, have been featured in a range of literature, Huxley’s “year of our Ford” in Brave New...

Those Feet

In this “sensual history of English football,” David Winner explores the whimsical, imperial past of a quintessential British sport and its staggering impact on fandom and leisure activities around the world.

Looking for Palestine

This profound memoir about reconciling conflicting ethnic and religious identities follows second-generation Arab-American Najla Said, attempting to understand her mixed heritage in a divided post-9/11 landscape.