Jonathan Gould on how Talking Heads transformed rock music

Augustine Sedgewick on the history of paternity and patriarchy

Laura Spinney on the spread of Proto-Indo-European

Ian Kumekawa tells the story of the global economy in one barge

Craig Thompson digs up memories of farm labor and the history of ginseng

Michael Joseph Gross on the importance of strength, past and present

David Sheff puts Yoko Ono in the spotlight

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story