Jill Lepore teaches history at Harvard and writes about history for the New Yorker. But she’s equally interested in the present: “We have an obligation to try to make sense of the relationship between today and yesterday,” she says.
Lepore’s latest book The Deadline, which comes out on Aug. 29, is a selection of her essays over the last 20 years on topics ranging from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol to the fight between Barbie’s maker and Bratz dolls… Read more at Time