• Biography

    Divorce

    Leaving Cormac: Life Lessons From My Correspondence with Lee McCarthy

    Kim Young on What It Means to Survive a First Marriage

     
    By Kim Young  November 21, 2024
    The Hub

    What to read if you can’t wait for the next season of You Must Remember This.

    By Brittany Allen  November 19, 2024
    Diaries

    How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping

    By Carl Rollyson  November 19, 2024
    Correspondence

    Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

    By Oliver Sacks  November 18, 2024
    The Royal Family

    Victoria’s Secret: How a Teenage Girl Became the Queen of England

    By Anne Somerset  November 18, 2024
    Founding Fathers

    Benjamin Franklin: As Much Scientist As Statesman

    By Richard Munson  November 14, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Royal Family

    The Mystery of Wallis Simpson’s Visit to Shanghai and Her Search for the Elusive “Hurry-Up” Divorce

    By Paul French  November 13, 2024
    Literary Icons

    Eve and Joan: Exploring the Tumultuous Friendship of LA’s Literary Ladies

    By Lili Anolik  November 12, 2024
    The Hub

    Dorothy Allison, author and force of nature, has died.

    By Brittany Allen  November 8, 2024
    Fathers and Sons

    Inside James Baldwin’s Fraught Relationship With His Stepfather

    Douglas Field Considers the Paternal Bond of an American Literary Icon in Relation to His Own

    By Douglas Field  November 20, 2024
    Poets

    “A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets

    By Dai George  November 7, 2024
    Musicians

    How a Young Michael Stipe Found Creative Camaraderie in Art School

    By Peter Ames Carlin  November 5, 2024
    Philosophy

    Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson’s Radical View of Reality Came to Be

    By Emily Herring  October 29, 2024
    The Hub

    Gary Indiana, iconoclast and author, has died.

    By Brittany Allen  October 24, 2024
    Gaza

    Fighting Words:
    A Tribute to Refaat Alareer

    By Yousef Aljamal and Rawan Yaghi  October 24, 2024
    The Hub

    On the enduring popularity—and appropriation—of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

    By Brittany Allen  October 22, 2024
    Gaza

    Somaia Abu Nada Remembers Her Slain Sister, Heba Abu Nada, Palestinian Poet and Novelist

    By Somaia Abunada  October 21, 2024
    Biography

    Correcting for the Male Gaze: On the Unique Challenges of Writing Biographies of Women

    How Iris Jamahl Dunkle Found the Fuller Story of the Life of Sanora Babb

    By Iris Jamahl Dunkle  October 17, 2024
    Appalachia

    “You Can’t Leave Your Folk at the Door.” On Queer Life in Appalachia

    By Rae Garringer  October 17, 2024
    The Hub

    Here’s why Han Kang is refusing to celebrate her Nobel Prize.

    By Brittany Allen  October 15, 2024
    Cooking

    Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary

    By Anthony Bourdain  October 15, 2024
    Entertainment

    How American Jews Created a Place For Themselves in Show Business

    Richard Bernstein on the Early Years of Mass Entertainment in the United States

    By Richard Bernstein  October 9, 2024
    In Memoriam

    On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

    By Elias Altman  October 7, 2024
    In Memoriam

    Looking After the Books: Remembering Children’s Author Joan Aiken

    By Lizza Aiken  September 30, 2024
    American Presidents

    How Woodrow Wilson’s Privileged Southern Upbringing Influenced His Love Life

    By Christopher Cox  November 8, 2024
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