The Icon and the Upstart: On Miles Davis’s Legendary Feud With Wynton Marsalis

The Icon and the Upstart: On Miles Davis’s Legendary Feud With Wynton Marsalis

James Kaplan Remembers One of Jazz’s Great Generational Battles

By James Kaplan | March 6, 2024

Kalpana Raina on Translating Her Uncle Hari Krishna Kaul’s Stories of Kashmir

Kalpana Raina on Translating Her Uncle Hari Krishna Kaul’s Stories of Kashmir

“There are no grand themes in Kaul’s work, but an exploration and ultimately an acceptance of human limitations.”

By Kalpana Raina | March 6, 2024

Revisiting the Radical Presence of Diane di Prima

Revisiting the Radical Presence of Diane di Prima

Liesl Schwabe on the Work and Legacy of the San Francisco Beat Poet

By Liesl Schwabe | March 4, 2024

Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers

Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers

Mary V. Dearborn Remembers an American Literary Champion of the Outsider

By Mary V. Dearborn | February 28, 2024

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“Being Baldwin requires you to be free. It’s mandatory.”

By Dan Sheehan | February 21, 2024

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Kirsten Bakis Explores the Lives of Writer and Paranormalist Cult Figure Charles Fort and His Wife, Anna

By Kirsten Bakis | February 21, 2024

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How The Prophet Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

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The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday’s Last Live Performance

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Who Made Who? On the Creative Collaboration of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse

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Mark Braude Considers the Blurred Lines Between Object and Participant, Artist and Muse

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Between Risk and Control: How Mark Rothko Discovered His Signature Style

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Adam Greenhalgh on the American Abstract Painter's Early Years

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Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

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Erik Wood Considers His Uncle’s “Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes”

By Erik Wood | February 5, 2024

The Tremendous Power and Lasting Impact of <em>The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill</em>

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Nadirah Simmons Proposes Some Additional Awards for the Highly Decorated Album

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Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

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Amanda Chemeche Talks to the Author of “Don’t Call Me Home”

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Collaboration, Not Competition: How Betty Smith Helped Her Fellow Writers

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Rachel Gordan on the Epistolary Relationships Maintained by the Author of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

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Adam Shatz on the Life and Legacy of a Great Post-Colonialism Thinker

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