• Biography

    Literary History

    An Exhibition on Gabriel García Márquez’s Long Road to Becoming a Writer

    By Lance Richardson  April 6, 2020
    Journalism

    Women in War: On Great Correspondents Past and Present

    By Jacqueline Winspear  April 2, 2020
    Poets

    Remembering Mark Strand: Lover of Voicemails, Roaster of Chickens, Writer of Poems

    By Rebecca Dinerstein Knight  March 31, 2020
    Country Music

    The Songwriters Behind Country Music’s Biggest Hits

    By Bobbie and Bill Malone  March 30, 2020
    History

    The Black Descendants of President Madison

    By Bettye Kearse  March 25, 2020
    Literary Biographies

    Young William Faulkner in the French Quarter

    By Carl Rollyson  March 24, 2020
    Biography

    Uncovering the Hidden Love Lives of Sylvia Plath and William Faulkner

    By Carl Rollyson  March 23, 2020
    Cities

    Finding Octavia Butler’s Pasadena

    By Katie Orphan  March 13, 2020
    Literary History

    Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

    By D.J. Taylor  March 13, 2020
    Correspondence

    Tove Jansson Falls in Love

    By Tove Jansson  March 11, 2020
    Solitude

    Cultivating Solitude,
    The Henry James’ Way

    By Fenton Johnson  March 10, 2020
    Criticism

    On Shirley Hazzard and the Antipodean Gaze

    By Michelle de Krester  March 9, 2020
    Artists

    Frida Kahlo Was a Captivating Subject for Photographers

    By Celia Stahr  March 5, 2020
    Activism

    Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

    By Adam Hochschild  March 5, 2020
    Film

    How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

    By Lonely Christopher  February 28, 2020
    Folklore

    Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

    By Gretel Ehrlich  February 24, 2020
    Poets

    When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the
    Spanish Civil War

    By W. Jason Miller  February 24, 2020
    News and Culture

    Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

    By Jean Genet  February 24, 2020
    On Poetry

    On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
    Amelia Earhart

    By Traci Brimhall  February 21, 2020
    Rereadings

    In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

    By Michelle Chihara  February 14, 2020
    Colonialism

    Lawrence of Arabia Understood the Middle East Better Than Many Modern Leaders

    By Dale Maharidge  February 6, 2020
    Conmen

    The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

    By Adam Sisman  February 3, 2020
    Freedom of the Press

    Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for ‘Unspecified Reasons’

    By Kaya Genç  January 31, 2020
    Writer's Diaries

    It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer’s Block

    By Ludvík Vaculík  January 29, 2020
    Civil Rights

    The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks’ Life in Detroit

    By Susan Reyburn  January 28, 2020
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