• Biography

    Photography

    A Rare Look at Obama Before the Presidency

    By David Katz  December 1, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Love, Travel, and Separation: On Bertolt Brecht and His Lover-Collaborators

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   December 1, 2020
    Biography

    The Biography I’ll Never Truly Finish Writing

    By Fortunato Salazar  November 30, 2020
    Letters

    Who Exactly Was Rilke’s Young Poet Correspondent?

    By Damion Searls  November 30, 2020
    Philosophy

    The Medieval Philosopher Who Outlined the Basics of the Universe

    By Seb Falk  November 30, 2020
    graphic biography

    When Paul Robeson
    Became a Star

    By Sharon Rudahl  November 30, 2020
    American History

    The ‘Race’ Question: Where Henry Adams Lacked
    Moral Insight

    By David S. Brown  November 25, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, November Edition

    By Book Marks  November 25, 2020
    New Books Network

    Was Freud a Scam Artist?

    By New Books Network  November 25, 2020
    Australian Literature

    Wayne Macauley on
    Gerald Murnane’s Most Memorable Book

    By Wayne Macauley  November 24, 2020
    Indigenous Voices

    The Writer Who Uncovered Crimes Against His Native Ancestors

    By David Grann  November 20, 2020
    Spirituality

    Why Harry Houdini DID NOT Like Arthur Conan Doyle

    By Chris Gosden  November 19, 2020
    World War II

    The Mysterious Celebrity Miracle Worker of Postwar Germany

    By Monica Black  November 17, 2020
    Poets

    The Lost Digital Poems (and Erotica) of William H. Dickey

    By Matthew Kirschenbaum  November 16, 2020
    Musicians

    How Woody Guthrie’s Mother Shaped His Music of the Downtrodden

    By Gustavus Stadler  November 16, 2020
    TV

    Alex Trebek’s Life in
    Three Timelines

    By Claire McNear  November 10, 2020
    Literary Icons

    Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

    By David Lazar  November 9, 2020
    On Poetry

    How Claire Malroux’s Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

    By Marilyn Hacker  November 9, 2020
    On Memoir

    The First Mughal Emperor’s Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

    By William Dalrymple  November 5, 2020
    Liberalism

    Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

    By Pankaj Mishra  November 2, 2020
    Criticism

    Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson’s
    First Novel

    By Madelaine Lucas  October 29, 2020
    Biography

    A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

    By Emily Van Duyne  October 29, 2020
    On Poetry

    On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

    By Nicholas McDowell  October 29, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain’s Honor Code

    By Just the Right Book   October 29, 2020
    Writer's Retreats

    On Sylvia Plath’s Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists’ Colony

    By Heather Clark  October 28, 2020
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