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

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

Marianne Eloise on Two of Her Favorite Writers—Who Could Not Be More Different

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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Whitney Otto on the Legacy of a Groundbreaking American Photographer

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Annette Trefzer on What Welty Learned From Berenice Abbott

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“Every night we hear the coyotes howl.” Read Letters from Ernest Hemingway to His Son

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“I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure.” When James Baldwin Went to Fire Island

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Jack Parlett on Where the Iconic Writer Wrote Another Country

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Why Writing an Autobiography Is More Like Recording an Album Than Making a Single

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