Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

Heather Cass White Unearths the Correspondence Between a Poet and His Faithful Reader

By Heather Cass White | December 20, 2022

Charles Dickens partied HARD after finishing <em>A Christmas Carol </em>in just six weeks.

Charles Dickens partied HARD after finishing A Christmas Carol in just six weeks.

By Jonny Diamond | December 19, 2022

What a Young, Aspiring John Singer Sargent Learned From the Beauty of Florence

What a Young, Aspiring John Singer Sargent Learned From the Beauty of Florence

Paul Fisher on an American Expatriate Artist’s Early Pursuit of Inspiration

By Paul Fisher | December 19, 2022

Thomas Pynchon’s archives have a home (Oedipa Maas and Zipi Pisk can finally relax)

Thomas Pynchon’s archives have a home (Oedipa Maas and Zipi Pisk can finally relax)

By Jonny Diamond | December 16, 2022

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

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

Kathi Diamant on the New Season of Authors in the Tent

By The Virtual Book Channel | December 15, 2022

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What to Read Before and After <em>The Adventures of Saul Bellow</em>

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How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

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Bob Blaisdell on Chronicling the Literary and Personal Life of One of Russia’s Most Prolific Writers

By Bob Blaisdell | December 9, 2022

How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

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

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

“I have tried existing, and I do not like it. I would like to give it up.”

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

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

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

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

Lynne Twist in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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