• Biography

    Baseball

    How Jackie Robinson Paved the Way for the Undersung
    Larry Doby

    By Luke Epplin  April 1, 2021
    The Hub

    Your Wednesday ASMR: John Ciardi reading his poem “Happiness.”

    By Walker Caplan  March 31, 2021
    Memoir

    7 Autobiographies and Memoirs That Remind Us of the Messiness of Memory

    By Whitney Otto  March 31, 2021
    Black History

    Liberty or Death: On the Prophetic Visions and Unflinching Will of
    Harriet Tubman

    By Dorothy Wickenden  March 31, 2021
    American History

    A Radical Education: How Greenwich Village Transformed Eleanor Roosevelt

    By Jan Jarboe Russell  March 30, 2021
    Public Intellectuals

    A Novel Life: On the Literary and Political Legacy of
    Edward Said

    By Timothy Brennan  March 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Just what you never knew you always wanted: a playlist of Jane Austen’s favorite songs.

    By Walker Caplan  March 26, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove author (and sly American existentialist), dies at 84.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Tennessee Williams’s first published short story. (It’s weird.)

    By Walker Caplan  March 26, 2021
    Nature Writing

    On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

    By David Quammen  March 26, 2021
    Literary Biographies

    How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

    By Kelsey Osgood  March 26, 2021
    The Hub

    A new original draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has just been discovered.

    By Walker Caplan  March 24, 2021
    Women's History

    Women of the New Frontier: On the Trailblazers Who Reimagined Television

    By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong  March 24, 2021
    News and Culture

    Why Alfred Hitchcock’s Films Still Feel Dangerous

    By David Thomson  March 24, 2021
    Artists

    Helen Frankenthaler: From High Society to Downtown Art Scene in 1950s NYC

    By Alexander Nemerov  March 23, 2021
    Open Letters

    Adrian Piper on the Earned Power of Self-Identification

    By Shaun Usher  March 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to a wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

    By Walker Caplan  March 22, 2021
    Crime

    Patron Saint of the Wall Street Fraudster: Who Was
    Charles Ponzi?

    By Dan Davies  March 22, 2021
    The Writing Life

    How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy

    By Paulina Bren  March 19, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty

    By Tara Wanda Merrigan  March 19, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter

    By Elizabeth Taylor  March 18, 2021
    News and Culture

    Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

    By Robert Alter  March 17, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

    By Elizabeth Taylor  March 16, 2021
    The Hub

    On that time John Wilkes Booth and his brothers starred in Julius Caesar.

    By Walker Caplan  March 15, 2021
    Black History

    Existence as Resistance: How Josephine Baker Challenged Misogynoir

    By Terri Simone Francis  March 12, 2021
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