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How One Week in Chicago Changed Abraham Lincoln’s Life—and the Fate of the United States

How One Week in Chicago Changed Abraham Lincoln’s Life—and the Fate of the United States

Edward Achorn on the Miraculous Nomination of an Illinois Lawyer

By Edward Achorn | February 16, 2023

How to Love a Writer: On the Care and Feeding of a Creative Marriage

How to Love a Writer: On the Care and Feeding of a Creative Marriage

Jess deCourcy Hinds Wonders How Literary Couples Make It Work

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | February 14, 2023

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

Mark Whitaker on the Making of a Modern American Revolutionary

By Mark Whitaker | February 13, 2023

The Coming-of-Age Tale As Societal Critique: Sylvia Plath’s <em>The Bell Jar</em> at 60

The Coming-of-Age Tale As Societal Critique: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar at 60

Heather Clark on One of the Defining Novels of the 20th Century

By Heather Clark | February 9, 2023

<em>The Lives of the Wives</em>: Carmela Ciuraru on Marriage, Writing, and Equity

The Lives of the Wives: Carmela Ciuraru on Marriage, Writing, and Equity

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 9, 2023

An Unequal Partnership: On the Marriage of Kingsley Amis and Jane Howard

An Unequal Partnership: On the Marriage of Kingsley Amis and Jane Howard

Carmela Ciuraru Explores What Literary Wives Are Forced to Sacrifice for Their Husbands' Success

By Carmela Ciuraru | February 8, 2023

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Who Really Was Margaret Fuller Before Her Sudden Death?

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Kwame Dawes on <em>The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass</em>

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Dawes, the great poet and critic, reflects on the legacy of the rhetorician and abolitionist Douglass, in the introduction to a new edition of his monumental autobiography

By Kwame Dawes | February 6, 2023

Ayşegül Savaş on the Work and Career of Turkish Writer Tezer Özlü

Ayşegül Savaş on the Work and Career of Turkish Writer Tezer Özlü

"Her voice was uniquely her own: consciousness distilled into narrative form.”

By Aysegül Savas | February 3, 2023

Kelly Link in Praise of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Genuine Magic

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“It is striking how resonant Le Guin’s work remains even as the future she describes recedes into our past.”

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How a Leading Voice of Eswatini Culture Was Erased From History

How a Leading Voice of Eswatini Culture Was Erased From History

Joel Cabrita on Regina Gelana Twala and the Legacy of Racism and Sexism in Southern Africa

By Joel Cabrita | January 30, 2023

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“He Was Determined to Make Himself into a Character.” David S. Willis on the Gonzo Journalism of Hunter S. Thompson

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