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How Spiritualism Influenced a Divisive But Brilliant Australian Novelist

How Spiritualism Influenced a Divisive But Brilliant Australian Novelist

Cameron Hurst on Contacting the Spirit of Henry Handel Richardson

By Cameron Hurst | April 17, 2023

Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania

Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania

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

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

Emily Franklin Recommends Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and More

By Emily Franklin | April 13, 2023

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

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

Jennifer Croll Offers a Toast to Writerly Legends

By Jennifer Croll | April 13, 2023

How a Young Sam Shepard Vowed to Never Become His Father

How a Young Sam Shepard Vowed to Never Become His Father

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

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

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

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On the Nested Worlds of Novelist Marina Warner

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Lucy Scholes Revisits Booker Shortlisted The Lost Father

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Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

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

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

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The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost

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