• Biography

    American Presidents

    Lessons in Self-Invention and Reinvention from
    Theodore Roosevelt

    By Michael Patrick F. Smith  February 17, 2021
    The Hub

    A few of the things Thomas Bernhard hated most about all the literary prizes he won.

    By Walker Caplan  February 12, 2021
    American Presidents

    To Unify a Divided (New) Nation: The Early Days of George Washington’s Presidency

    By David O. Stewart  February 11, 2021
    Women Making History

    The Woman Who Ran for President Before Women
    Could Vote

    By Mira Ptacin  February 10, 2021
    Sports History

    How James Thomas “Cool Papa” Bell Became a Negro League Superstar

    By Lonnie Wheeler  February 10, 2021
    American History

    Gossip, Deceit, and Heartbreak in 19th-Century New England

    By Christine Leigh Heyrman  February 10, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Obstinate Love: In Memory of the Great Ved Mehta

    By Chaya Bhuvaneswar  February 4, 2021
    African American History

    Remembering the Mothers of Three Iconic Civil Rights Figures

    By Anna Malaika Tubbs  February 2, 2021
    Music

    Looking to Get Lost by Peter Guralnick, Read by Jim Meskimen

    By Behind the Mic   February 1, 2021
    American History

    Barbara Lee on What Shirley Chisholm Gave America

    By Rep. Barbara Lee  January 29, 2021
    American History

    Remembering Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Disaster

    By Joyce Maynard  January 28, 2021
    American History

    Silencing Ida B. Wells Was
    Never Going to Happen

    By Michelle Duster  January 27, 2021
    On Race

    Writing the Story of Aunt Jemima’s Modern Descendant

    By Ladee Hubbard  January 21, 2021
    Literary History

    Patricia Highsmith’s Confessions and Rebellions at Yaddo

    By Richard Bradford  January 19, 2021
    Memoir

    Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland

    By Yiyun Li  January 15, 2021
    Film History

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius
    of Ingmar Bergman

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  January 11, 2021
    Literary History

    On Writing Nora Joyce into Biographical Fiction

    By Nuala O'Connor  January 5, 2021
    Lit Century

    Where Blues for Mister Charlie Fits into James Baldwin’s Oeuvre

    By Lit Century   December 29, 2020
    Baseball

    When Tom Seaver Came Into the Big Leagues He Came in Pitching

    By Bill Madden  December 22, 2020
    Anthropology

    Barry Lopez on the Life of a True Naturalist

    By Barry Lopez  December 18, 2020
    Theater

    The Austrian Writer Whose Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

    By Genese Grill  December 17, 2020
    The West

    That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in
    New Mexico

    By Ken Layne  December 16, 2020
    Classical Music

    How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

    By Jan Swafford  December 15, 2020
    The Writing Life

    What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

    By Patrick Wright  December 11, 2020
    Letters

    Edith Vonnegut on the Love Letters of Kurt and Jane Vonnegut

    By Edith Vonnegut  December 9, 2020
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