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The Unearthly Glamour of Swans: On the Origins of Truman Capote’s Unpublished, Scathing Roman à Clef

The Unearthly Glamour of Swans: On the Origins of Truman Capote’s Unpublished, Scathing Roman à Clef

Laurence Leamer Looks at Capote’s Fascination with Fabulously Rich Women

By Laurence Leamer | October 13, 2021

William Sites on Sun Ra’s Proto-Afrofuturism and Birmingham Upbringing

William Sites on Sun Ra’s Proto-Afrofuturism and Birmingham Upbringing

This Week from the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | October 12, 2021

Why Did It Take Scientists So Long to Fully Understand Genetics and Mendel’s Laws?

Why Did It Take Scientists So Long to Fully Understand Genetics and Mendel’s Laws?

Howard Markel on the Complicated Process of Scientific Inquiry, DNA, and Heredity

By Howard Markel | October 8, 2021

Jan Swafford and Robert Levin on Mozart’s Infectious Genius

Jan Swafford and Robert Levin on Mozart’s Infectious Genius

This Week on the Radio Open Source Podcast

By Open Source | October 8, 2021

How the Word “Landscape” Helped Change Americans' Relationship to Nature

How the Word “Landscape” Helped Change Americans' Relationship to Nature

Tyler Green on the Emerson-Inspired Language Shift and Its Meaning for Wilderness and Civilization

By Tyler Green | October 7, 2021

Nadifa Mohamed on the Long, Strange Journey of Her Uncle Kettle

Nadifa Mohamed on the Long, Strange Journey of Her Uncle Kettle

“My sense of belonging to Hargeisa, the city of my birth but not his, has dissipated in his absence.”

By Nadifa Mohamed | October 4, 2021

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On Constancia de la Mora and the Plight of Writers in Exile

By Soledad Fox Maura | October 4, 2021

A Ghost in His Own Life: Colm Tóibín on the Great Thomas Mann

By Open Source | October 1, 2021

How to Deal with Rejection (and Get Revenge) Like Edgar Allan Poe

By Catherine Baab-Muguira | September 30, 2021

Frances Hodgson Burnett Really Loved Gardens—Even Secret Ones

Frances Hodgson Burnett Really Loved Gardens—Even Secret Ones

“As long as you have a garden you have a future.”

By Marta McDowell | September 29, 2021

A World Outside Time: Pico Iyer on the Deep Pleasure of Handel’s Chorale Music

A World Outside Time: Pico Iyer on the Deep Pleasure of Handel’s Chorale Music

“What so moves me—literally transports me—is the way he blends ceremony with emotion.”

By Pico Iyer | September 29, 2021

Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies

Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies

Featuring Joy Harjo, Winfred Rembert, Dawn Turner, and more

By Book Marks | September 29, 2021

Ezra Pound’s Unrepentant Ties With Fascist Italy

Ezra Pound’s Unrepentant Ties With Fascist Italy

Lauren Arrington on the Poets of Rapallo and Women’s Forgotten Involvement

By Lauren Arrington | September 27, 2021

How Philip Roth Controlled the Narrative of His Own Life

How Philip Roth Controlled the Narrative of His Own Life

Biographer Jacques Berlinerblau on the Death of Critical Distance

By Jacques Berlinerblau | September 24, 2021

Why Blues Singer Bessie Smith’s Bewitching Narratives Remain Eerily Relevant

Why Blues Singer Bessie Smith’s Bewitching Narratives Remain Eerily Relevant

Jackie Kay on the Life, Nuanced Legacy, and Celebrity of the Empress of the Blues

By Jackie Kay | September 23, 2021

On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette

On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette

Nancy Goldstone Recounts the Freedom of Life Before Marriage to Louis XVI

By Nancy Goldstone | September 23, 2021

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