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On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

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

By Melissa Pritchard | March 15, 2024

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

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

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

By Dean King | March 14, 2024

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

By Rudi Zygadlo | March 13, 2024

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

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

“Once you smell how brilliant he was, you feel it's legitimate to show the roiling squalor of his demise.”

By Dan Sheehan | March 13, 2024

What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

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

By Ramie Targoff | March 13, 2024

History Skews Male: Looking at Anna May Wong’s Life Through the Eyes of a Woman

History Skews Male: Looking at Anna May Wong’s Life Through the Eyes of a Woman

Katie Gee Salisbury on Writing a Biography of the Iconic Chinese American Movie Star

By Katie Gee Salisbury | March 13, 2024

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“A Nation of Lunatics.” What Oscar Wilde Thought About America

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

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

How <em>The Prophet</em> Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

How The Prophet Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

The Late Joan Acocella on the Complex and Contradictory Life of a New Age Icon

By Joan Acocella | February 20, 2024

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

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