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

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

Paul Alexander Chronicles the Final Months of America’s Queen of Jazz

By Paul Alexander | February 19, 2024

In a Memoriam: A Poem by Anthony Brian Smith

In a Memoriam: A Poem by Anthony Brian Smith

Remembering a Writer Gone Too Soon

By Anthony Brian Smith | February 16, 2024

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

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

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

By Mark Braude | February 9, 2024

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

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

Adam Greenhalgh on the American Abstract Painter's Early Years

By Adam Greenhalgh | February 7, 2024

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

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

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>

The Tremendous Power and Lasting Impact of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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

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The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

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What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

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Danell Jones Grapples With a Beloved Author’s Casual Racism

By Danell Jones | January 25, 2024

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Lyndsey Stonebridge on “The Origins of Totalitarianism” and the Failure of Democracy

By Lyndsey Stonebridge | January 18, 2024

Autofiction Without the Auto: On Javier Cercas’ Outward-Looking, Self-Centered Fiction

Autofiction Without the Auto: On Javier Cercas’ Outward-Looking, Self-Centered Fiction

Bécquer Seguín Considers the Emergence of a New Type of Literature in Post-Franco Spain

By Bécquer Seguín | January 10, 2024

Between Anxiety and Hope: On the Cautious Optimism of Lewis Thomas

Between Anxiety and Hope: On the Cautious Optimism of Lewis Thomas

Sukhada Tatke Remembers the Essayist and His Scientific and Creative Vision

By Sukhada Tatke | December 20, 2023

Fierce, Fearless and Fun: How Maggie Higgins Broke New Ground For Women in Journalism

Fierce, Fearless and Fun: How Maggie Higgins Broke New Ground For Women in Journalism

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By Jennet Conant | December 15, 2023

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“Is That a First Edition of The Iliad?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

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