• Biography

    Politics

    Editing Larry Kramer, a Man Larger than Life

    By Helen Eisenbach  June 1, 2020
    Paintings

    On the Untold Talent of Dora Maar, More Than a Muse of Picasso

    By Brigitte Benkemoun  May 29, 2020
    Criticism

    John Barth Deserves a Wider Audience

    By John Domini  May 27, 2020
    Freeman's

    Letters of War, and the End of Youth

    By Claire Messud  May 22, 2020
    Historical Fiction

    Lauren Francis-Sharma:
    ‘What if the Facts Aren’t the Facts at All?’

    By Lauren Francis-Sharma  May 22, 2020
    Fascism

    Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

    By Edmund White  May 20, 2020
    Animals

    The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

    By Robert Hough  May 20, 2020
    Biography

    Even in His Retirement, Philip Roth Wrote Thousands of Pages

    By Benjamin Taylor  May 19, 2020
    Poets

    Defiant and Unsinkable:
    The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay

    By Olivia Gatwood  May 19, 2020
    Iceland

    Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland’s Eastern Coast

    By A. Kendra Greene  May 15, 2020
    Essayists

    Wayne Koestenbaum Considers Incense, Irish Spring, and, Yes, Some Other Smells

    By Wayne Koestenbaum  May 13, 2020
    Psychology

    The Unlikely Optimism of Viktor Frankl

    By Franz Vesely  May 11, 2020
    Mr. Rogers

    Dear Mr. Rogers: A Letter From Officer Clemmons

    By François Clemmons  May 8, 2020
    Writers in Conversation

    On Kierkegaard, Authenticity, and How a Person Should Be

    By Literary Hub  May 5, 2020
    Jane Austen

    Cassandra Austen: Literary Arsonist, or a Heroine in Her Own Right?

    By Gill Hornby  May 1, 2020
    Antifascists

    A Good Journalist Understands That Fascism Can Happen Anywhere, Anytime

    By Nancy Cott  April 30, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Deirdre Bair

    By Sydney Ladensohn Stern  April 29, 2020
    Love Affairs

    My Father and Frida Kahlo:
    A Love Story

    By Marc Petitjean  April 29, 2020
    Political Literature

    Robert Stone’s Journalism Set New Moral and Artistic High-Water Marks

    By Matt Gallagher  April 28, 2020
    On Poetry

    The Question of Homoeroticism in Whitman’s Poetry

    By Mark Doty  April 14, 2020
    Baseball

    The Early Career of a New York
    Yankee Icon

    By Jon Pessah  April 14, 2020
    Literary History

    An Exhibition on Gabriel García Márquez’s Long Road to Becoming a Writer

    By Lance Richardson  April 6, 2020
    Journalism

    Women in War: On Great Correspondents Past and Present

    By Jacqueline Winspear  April 2, 2020
    Poets

    Remembering Mark Strand: Lover of Voicemails, Roaster of Chickens, Writer of Poems

    By Rebecca Dinerstein Knight  March 31, 2020
    Country Music

    The Songwriters Behind Country Music’s Biggest Hits

    By Bobbie and Bill Malone  March 30, 2020
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