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Ada Calhoun on Writing About Greatness and Failure

Ada Calhoun on Writing About Greatness and Failure

The Author of Also a Poet in Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | June 29, 2023

How Queen Elizabeth I Remembered and Honored Her Mother, Anne Boleyn

How Queen Elizabeth I Remembered and Honored Her Mother, Anne Boleyn

Tracy Borman on Two of British History’s Most Famous Monarchs

By Tracy Borman | June 28, 2023

Henry David Thoreau Was Funnier Than You Think, Particularly on the Subject of Work

Henry David Thoreau Was Funnier Than You Think, Particularly on the Subject of Work

John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle on the Necessary “Deep Sincerity” of Dark Humor

By John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle | June 26, 2023

Jackson Lears on the American Pursuit of Vitality From Walt Whitman to Donald Trump

Jackson Lears on the American Pursuit of Vitality From Walt Whitman to Donald Trump

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 26, 2023

More Than A Children’s Story: <em>The Velveteen Rabbit</em> At 100

More Than A Children’s Story: The Velveteen Rabbit At 100

Lisa Rowe Fraustino on the Enduring Relevance of Margery Williams’s Most Famous Book

By Lisa Rowe Fraustino | June 23, 2023

How Audrey Clare Farley Rewrote the Story of the Genain Quadruplets

How Audrey Clare Farley Rewrote the Story of the Genain Quadruplets

The Author of Girls and Their Monsters On the Oft-Exploited History of the Morlok Sisters

By Audrey Clare Farley | June 22, 2023

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“Born in Sin.” Patrick Radden Keefe Talks Narrative Nonfiction

By Read Smart | June 20, 2023

"A Race Problem." Jolene Hubbs on Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature

By History of Literature | June 20, 2023

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By Jonny Diamond | June 16, 2023

Santi Elijah Holley on the Shakurs: From the Black Panthers to Tupac

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Literary Friends to Enemies: Why Graham Greene Hated Anthony Burgess

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Michael Mewshaw on the Animosity Between Two Giants of 20th-Century British Literature

By Michael Mewshaw | June 9, 2023

<em>Parting Glances</em>: Mourning the Work We Didn’t Get from Queer Director Bill Sherwood

Parting Glances: Mourning the Work We Didn’t Get from Queer Director Bill Sherwood

His Debut Was One of the Best Independent Films of the 1980s. He Died Four Years Later.

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Chad Williams on W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World World

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Is Shakespeare the Ultimate Dead White Male?

Is Shakespeare the Ultimate Dead White Male?

James Shapiro on the Read Smart Podcast, Presented by the Baillie Gifford Prize

By Read Smart | June 6, 2023

Erotic Writer and Eponym of Sadism: How Marquis de Sade Became the Scandalizing Writer He Was

Erotic Writer and Eponym of Sadism: How Marquis de Sade Became the Scandalizing Writer He Was

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By History of Literature | June 5, 2023

The Booker Revisited: Why Everyone Should Read <em>The Bay of Noon</em> by Shirley Hazzard

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