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How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

Nino Strachey on the Revolutionary Found Family of the Bloomsbury Group

By Nino Strachey | December 15, 2022

Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart

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Kathi Diamant on the New Season of Authors in the Tent

By The Virtual Book Channel | December 15, 2022

Notable Literary Deaths in 2022

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By Emily Temple | December 14, 2022

“The Song Found Me.” An Oral History of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly”

“The Song Found Me.” An Oral History of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly”

Roberta Flack, Charles Fox, and Lori Lieberman Discuss the Genesis of an Iconic Song

By Marc Myers | December 14, 2022

How Paul McCartney Dispelled the Myth of His Own Death

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Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair on One Beatle’s Reaction to the Band’s Impending Breakup

By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair | December 13, 2022

How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Into the Mythical “G-Men”

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By Literary Hub | December 9, 2022

How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

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By Jesmyn Ward | December 7, 2022

“Please Pretend That I am Dead.” Darcey Steinke on the Long, Complicated Life of Painter Agnes Martin

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Scientific, Sexual and Sentimental: What Frida Kahlo Saw in the Orchid

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Erica Hannickel on an Artist's Plant-Filled Life

By Erica Hannickel | December 6, 2022

What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

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Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

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Amusing, Disturbing, Delightful: Celebrating Jean Stafford

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