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What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

Lynne Twist in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 2, 2022

Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos on the Suspicious Timing of a Widowing and a Wedding

By Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos | December 1, 2022

Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

Stacy Schiff In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | December 1, 2022

Amusing, Disturbing, Delightful: Celebrating Jean Stafford

Amusing, Disturbing, Delightful: Celebrating Jean Stafford

Mary Gordon on an Under-Appreciated Author

By Mary Gordon | November 30, 2022

When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

Bob Blaisdell in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 29, 2022

Tracing Bong Joon Ho’s Rise to Fame, from Secret Government Blacklist to Making Oscars History

Tracing Bong Joon Ho’s Rise to Fame, from Secret Government Blacklist to Making Oscars History

Karen Han on the Films That Made a (Cheeky) Star

By Karen Han | November 28, 2022

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Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

By Paul Lafargue | November 28, 2022

How Virginia Woolf Shunned—and Then Embraced—T.S. Eliot

By Lyndall Gordon | November 23, 2022

Zelda Fitzgerald: Writer, Muse, and... Painter?

By Eleanor Lanahan | November 23, 2022

How Thomas Jefferson’s Writing Established the Stories of Colonial America

How Thomas Jefferson’s Writing Established the Stories of Colonial America

Fred Kaplan Examines the Historical Record

By Fred Kaplan | November 23, 2022

Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

Cullen Murphy Shares the Writer’s Interactions with Josephine Baker, Gore Vidal, Princess Margaret and More

By Cullen Murphy | November 21, 2022

How Jane Austen Almost Walked Away From Writing

How Jane Austen Almost Walked Away From Writing

Anna Beer Ponders the Possible Loss of a Literary Icon

By Anna Beer | November 18, 2022

“Polluters Will Be Looked Upon as Swine.” On Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmental Activism

“Polluters Will Be Looked Upon as Swine.” On Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmental Activism

Christina Jarvis on the Literary Icon’s Advocacy for Planetary Citizenship

By Christina Jarvis | November 17, 2022

On Chuck Berry’s Early Literary Influences

On Chuck Berry’s Early Literary Influences

RJ Smith Recounts the Father of Rock and Roll's Childhood Occupation with Greatness

By RJ Smith | November 16, 2022

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

“If you come to live there, come to know it, you will live in other times.”

By Brigitta Olubas | November 15, 2022

“Maybe Broccoli Doesn’t Like You Either” (Lot 151) On the Allure of Joan Didion’s Objects

“Maybe Broccoli Doesn’t Like You Either” (Lot 151) On the Allure of Joan Didion’s Objects

Mary Kate Frank Wonders at the Power We Give to Things

By Mary Kate Frank | November 15, 2022

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