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Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

On the Author of the Most Widely Denounced Novel Published Before World War I

By Hilary A. Hallett | July 26, 2022

Where’s the Respect for Ani DiFranco?

Where’s the Respect for Ani DiFranco?

Elisa Albert Pays Tribute to the Folksinger, Renegade, Music Industry Outlier, and Activist

By Elisa Albert | July 25, 2022

Reckoning with the Memory of Jonas Mekas, Godfather of Avant-Garde Cinema

Reckoning with the Memory of Jonas Mekas, Godfather of Avant-Garde Cinema

“I saw no reason to doubt Mekas’s story: hadn’t he written it all down in his diaries and told it in his films?”

By Peter Delpeut | July 22, 2022

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

Ash Davidson on Now in November

By Ash Davidson | July 19, 2022

Lost in Translation: When the United States Met Pablo Picasso

Lost in Translation: When the United States Met Pablo Picasso

Hugh Eakin on John Quinn, the Man Who First Introduced America to Modern Art and New Ideas

By Hugh Eakin | July 14, 2022

How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

Damien Lewis on an American Icon's Transformation from Dancer to Spy

By Damien Lewis | July 13, 2022

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Katherine Angel on Valerie Solanas, Bad Dads, and the Literary Pleasures of Pure Rage

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Reading Mahfouz: Egyptian Literature Between Old and New, Freedom and Censorship

By Mohamed Shoair | July 6, 2022

California State of Mind: Searching for Didion and Babitz in Literary Los Angeles

By Marianne Eloise | July 5, 2022

“With Laughing Cheer, As Is Her Custom.” On the Laughing Queens of Early Modern Europe

“With Laughing Cheer, As Is Her Custom.” On the Laughing Queens of Early Modern Europe

Joy Wiltenburg Considers the Power of Laughter In Female Rulers

By Joy Wiltenburg | July 5, 2022

How Fiction Helps Bring History’s Extraordinary Yet Forgotten Women To Life

How Fiction Helps Bring History’s Extraordinary Yet Forgotten Women To Life

Alexandra Lapierre on Immersing Herself in the Life of Belle da Costa Greene

By Alexandra Lapierre | June 30, 2022

Why 1997 Was a Pivotal Year in the Life of George Michael

Why 1997 Was a Pivotal Year in the Life of George Michael

Princess Diana’s Death, Ellen, and the Fear of Coming Out

By James Gavin | June 29, 2022

The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

Bryan Karetnyk on Translating the Work of Yuri Felsen

By Bryan Karetnyk | June 27, 2022

How One of America’s Most Influential Black Writers Befriended a Pioneering American Aviator

How One of America’s Most Influential Black Writers Befriended a Pioneering American Aviator

Gene Andrew Jarrett on the Unexpected Friendship of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Orville Wright

By Gene Andrew Jarrett | June 27, 2022

The Early Life of the Renowned Leader of the Lakotas, Sitting Bull

The Early Life of the Renowned Leader of the Lakotas, Sitting Bull

Mark Lee Gardner on Sitting Bull's Transformation into a Young Peacemaker

By Mark Lee Gardner | June 24, 2022

David Grossman Remembers His Friend, the Novelist AB Yehoshua

David Grossman Remembers His Friend, the Novelist AB Yehoshua

“He was able to show us the how ‘grand’ history seeps into the soul of the individual, at times bursting forth from within.”

By David Grossman | June 23, 2022

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