Dostoevsky totally did NaNoWriMo.

Dostoevsky totally did NaNoWriMo.

By Walker Caplan | November 12, 2021

The True Story of Pearl Hart, Straight-Shooting, Poetry-Writing Woman Bandit

The True Story of Pearl Hart, Straight-Shooting, Poetry-Writing Woman Bandit

John Boessenecker on the Most Infamous Woman in America, Circa 1899

By John Boessenecker | November 11, 2021

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

“The years we have gone through have killed something in us.”

By Robert Meagher | November 10, 2021

The Legendary Meeting of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

The Legendary Meeting of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

Bob Spitz on the Men Behind Led Zeppelin

By Bob Spitz | November 9, 2021

On the Humble Childhood Beginnings of H.G. Wells

On the Humble Childhood Beginnings of H.G. Wells

Claire Tomalin Recounts the Early Years of a Sci-Fi Pioneer

By Claire Tomalin | November 8, 2021

On Unjustly Forgotten American Abstract Artist Alice Trumbull Mason

On Unjustly Forgotten American Abstract Artist Alice Trumbull Mason

Meghan Forbes: What the Letters Reveal About the Artist

By Meghan Forbes | November 4, 2021

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“Was It I Who Came Back Home?” On the Return of Catherine Dior and Other Survivors of Ravensbrück

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How Vincent van Gogh’s Favorite Works of French Literature Influenced His Art and Identity

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Steven Naifeh on the Painter's Lifelong Relationship to Books

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All About Basket: A Letter from Gertrude Stein About Her Beloved Dog

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The Best New Nonfiction to Read This November

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Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

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Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

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Gabrielle Selz on Sam Francis and the Boy’s Club of the Art World

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“We Were Alive and Life Was Us.” How Ken Kesey Created LSD Subculture

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Kevin Boyle on the Wild Life and Times of a Great American Iconoclast

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