Paul Auster has died at age 77.

Paul Auster has died at age 77.

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Did Jane Austen Like Music? And Why Should We Care?

Did Jane Austen Like Music? And Why Should We Care?

Gillian Dooley on the Importance of Music for the British Novelist’s Literary Development

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The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

Ed Simon on the Lives and Legacies of Two Icons of Romanticism and Rebellion

By Ed Simon | April 19, 2024

How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

Michael Korda on the Creative and Sentimental Camaraderie Between Two Soldier Poets

By Michael Korda | April 16, 2024

A syllabus for fans of <em>You Must Remember This.</em>

A syllabus for fans of You Must Remember This.

By Brittany Allen | April 12, 2024

When a 24-Year-Old Ian Fleming Went to Moscow to Cover a “Show” Trial

When a 24-Year-Old Ian Fleming Went to Moscow to Cover a “Show” Trial

“Russia is ruled by an army of executioners with the Lubyanka as the headquarters of death.”

By Nicholas Shakespeare | April 9, 2024

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The Writer Next Door: My Life As Joyce Carol Oates’ Neighbor

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What Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore Learned From Each Other

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Rachel Cohen on an Epistolary Friendship Between Two Giants of American Poetry

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On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

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Melissa Pritchard Explores the Parallel Lives of the Russian Literary Giant and the Founder of Modern Nursing

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“So Boundless an Affluence of Sublime Mountain Beauty...” When John Muir First Encountered Yosemite

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Dean King on the Great American Wanderer’s Experience of the Sierra Nevadas

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No True Scotsman: Searching for Robert Burns in the Middle of Florida

No True Scotsman: Searching for Robert Burns in the Middle of Florida

Rudi Zygadlo Attempts to Address the Haggis at a Sarasota Country Club

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The Light and the Dark: Tom Hollander on Playing Truman Capote

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What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

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Ramie Targoff on the Hidden History of Women Writers of the English Renaissance

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