• Biography

    Public Intellectuals

    On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

    By Nicholas Buccola  November 12, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Elizabeth Bishop in Key West, Island of Her Dreams

    By Thomas Travisano  November 12, 2019
    Literary History

    On the Difficulty of Convincing Samuel Beckett of Just About Anything

    By Deirdre Bair  November 11, 2019
    Writing Life

    The Wild, Impassioned World of Anaïs Nin’s Diaries

    By Kim Krizan  November 8, 2019
    Nazis

    Hans Fallada, the Anti-Nazi Writer Who Reluctantly Served the Reich

    By Geoff Wilkes  November 8, 2019
    Reading Women

    Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women’s Nonfiction Award

    By Reading Women  November 6, 2019
    Civics

    Nancy Pelosi on Looking to Eleanor Roosevelt for Hope

    By Nancy Pelosi  November 5, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
    Post-Truth Age

    By Joanna Kavenna  October 25, 2019
    Icons

    The Gloriously Understated Career of Elaine Stritch

    By Alexandra Jacobs  October 22, 2019
    Diarists

    Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

    By Alejandro Zambra  October 22, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Trial of Harry Houdini

    By Joe Posnanski  October 22, 2019
    True Crime

    Murder in Paradise: The Tale of the Baroness and the Bohemians

    By Mars van Grunsven  October 18, 2019
    Native American Lit

    How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

    By Janice Gould  October 18, 2019
    Correspondence

    A Friendship in Letters:
    Flannery O’Connor and Katherine Anne Porter

    By Benjamin B. Alexander  October 16, 2019
    Musicians

    On the Groundbreaking Documentary That Brought the Birthplace of Chicago Blues Alive

    By David Dann  October 16, 2019
    Biography

    The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

    By Iris Origo  October 15, 2019
    Love

    Rumi Priestly Poet of Love and Master of the One Liner

    By Brad Gooch   October 10, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

    By Morten Høi Jensen  October 7, 2019
    News and Culture

    Tracing the Family Legacy From My Suffragette Grandmothers

    By Adele Logan Alexander  October 7, 2019
    Anti-Colonialism

    The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin’s Last Two Unfinished Works

    By Bill V. Mullen  October 4, 2019
    Archives

    The Author Who Didn’t Care to Be Remembered

    By Jean-Christophe Cloutier  October 4, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Jazz Age Heiress Who Witnessed WWII Up Close

    By Peter Finn  September 24, 2019
    Criticism

    Open to Interpretation: The Brief Relationship of Susan Sontag and Jasper Johns

    By Benjamin Moser  September 19, 2019
    Correspondence

    The Last Love Letters of Anti-Nazi German Resistance Fighters

    By Helmuth Caspar von Moltke, Dorothea von Moltke, and Johannes von Moltke  September 18, 2019
    The Lives of Women

    On Alma Mahler, Muse and Mistress of Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

    By Cate Haste  September 16, 2019
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