• Biography

    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania

    By The Literary Life  April 14, 2023
    Feminist History

    A Feminist Before Feminism: A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston

    By Emily Franklin  April 13, 2023
    Cocktails

    Cocktails in Honor of Two Literary Greats: Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston

    By Jennifer Croll  April 13, 2023
    Playwrights

    How a Young Sam Shepard Vowed to Never Become His Father

    By Robert Greenfield  April 11, 2023
    Irish History

    When the IRA Arrived in Brighton to Blow Up Margaret Thatcher, Her Cabinet, and the Grand Hotel

    By Rory Carroll  April 7, 2023
    Art Criticism

    How Yayoi Kusama Transformed Her Terrors Into Art

    By Will Gompertz  April 5, 2023
    Keen On

    Ralph White on His Wartime Efforts to Rescue Vietnamese Civilians

    By Keen On  April 5, 2023
    Keen On

    Sally Bedell Smith on the 20th-Century Royal Marriage That Saved the British Monarchy

    By Keen On  April 4, 2023
    Lit Century

    On Songs for Drella and the Paradox of Andy Warhol’s Art

    By Lit Century   April 4, 2023
    WWI

    On W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disgraceful Treatment of Gold Star Mothers

    By Chad L. Williams  April 4, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    On the Nested Worlds of Novelist Marina Warner

    By Lucy Scholes  April 3, 2023
    In Memoriam

    Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Stephanie Marie Thornton Imagines the Lost Words Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Visionary Daughter Mary Shelley

    By Keen On  March 27, 2023
    Muses

    When the Muses Step Out of the Shadows: Reading the Women Who Enabled Greatness

    By Sophie Haydock  March 20, 2023
    Irish Literature

    The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost

    By Alexander Poots  March 17, 2023
    Environmentalism

    Daisy Hildyard on the Ancient Origins of James Lovelock, Progenitor of Gaia Theory

    By Daisy Hildyard  March 16, 2023
    In Memoriam

    “This Boy is Going to Be a Writer.” Remembering Paul La Farge’s Childhood

    By Wendy Walker  March 15, 2023
    Book Festivals

    Why Philip Roth, Why Now?

    By Literary Hub  March 13, 2023
    The Hub

    Remembering Ian Falconer, children’s author and force at The New Yorker.

    By Janet Manley  March 8, 2023
    Keen On

    Craig Seligman on Doris Fish, the Rise of Drag and Why Ron DeSantis Should Dress Up as a Woman

    By Keen On  March 7, 2023
    Letters

    On the Mundane Letters of John Keats

    By Geoffrey D. Morrison  March 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Michael G. Long on Why Jackie Robinson’s Political Legacy is at Least as Important as His Sporting One

    By Keen On  March 6, 2023
    Exploration

    The Day Explorers Finally Found One of the World’s Great Lost Shipwrecks

    By Mensun Bound  March 3, 2023
    Queer History

    Yes, Sydney, Australia in the 1960s Was the Drag Capital of the World

    By Craig Seligman  March 3, 2023
    The Hub

    Celebrity children’s books ranked from ? to ???

    By Janet Manley  March 2, 2023
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