• Biography

    Women's Rights

    Inside the Life and Struggle of Victorian-Era Women’s Rights Activist Annie Besant

    Michael Meyer on an Overlooked Early Proponent of Reproductive Freedom in the United Kingdom

     
    By Michael Meyer  March 14, 2025
    Singer Songwriters

    “For Your Own Damn Good.” How Alanis Morissette Gave a Voice to Her Fans’ Struggles

    By Megan Volpert  March 10, 2025
    craft advice

    Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

    By Vanda Krefft  March 10, 2025
    On Poetry

    “Poetry Remains Indestructible.” On the Resilience of Art in the Face of Fascism

    By Spencer Reece  March 6, 2025
    Legends

    Dear Jimi Hendrix: A Letter, in Gratitude, From Jeffery Renard Allen

    By Jeffery Renard Allen  March 5, 2025
    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Politics

    The Rise of Ronald Reagan, a Product of California

    By Michael Hiltzik  February 26, 2025
    Music history

    How Little Richard Brought Black and Queer Culture to American Airwaves

    By Jon Savage  February 21, 2025
    The Hub

    Remembering David Ruggles, the radical abolitionist who opened the first Black-owned bookstore.

    By Brittany Allen  February 18, 2025
    The Writing Life

    What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

    Will Rees on the Shared Characteristics Between Health Anxiety and the Writer’s Calling

    By Will Rees  March 12, 2025
    Literary History

    An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne

    By Megan Marshall  February 12, 2025
    Remembrances

    “This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer

    By Paul Morton  February 7, 2025
    The Hub

    How librarians saved the day in World War II.

    By Brittany Allen  February 6, 2025
    Literary Friendships

    A Friendship Across the Color Line: How Shared Southern Roots Brought a Black Writer and a White Editor Together

    Tess Chakkalakal on the Unlikely Literary Partnership Between Charles W. Chesnutt and Walter Hines Page

    By Tess Chakkalakal  February 5, 2025
    The Hub

    Want to win Leonard Cohen’s “magic writing cap?”

    By Brittany Allen  February 4, 2025
    Biography

    How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

    By Ruth Franklin  January 29, 2025
    Menopause

    Edith Wharton and the Clarifying Rage of the Menopausal Writer

    By Deborah Williams  January 24, 2025
    Literary Icons

    A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood

    Constance Roisin on the Author’s Construction of Herself in Fiction and in Life

    By Constance Roisin  January 24, 2025
    Music history

    “I Immediately Began to Weep.” How “Both Sides Now” Made Joni Mitchell a Superstar

    By Henry Alford  January 21, 2025
    Short Stories

    Chasing Mystery Through Fiction:
    On the Life and Literary Career of Mavis Gallant

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  January 20, 2025
    The Hub

    On the immortality of David Lynch.

    By Brittany Allen  January 17, 2025
    The Hub

    You can now find Jhumpa Lahiri’s first drafts at the New York Public Library.

    By Brittany Allen  January 13, 2025
    On Race

    How Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party Attempted to Liberate Black Women in America

    By Mary Frances Phillips  January 10, 2025
    Activism

    The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism

    By Julie Phillips  January 3, 2025
    Philosophy

    What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

    By Adam Plunkett  February 18, 2025
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