Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

“His fallback, his signature, is always humor.”

By Charles McGrath | June 29, 2021

Very Different Writers, Uncanny Commonalities: On Lee Child and<br> Heidi James

Very Different Writers, Uncanny Commonalities: On Lee Child and
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Biographer Heather Martin Takes the Measure of Two Literary Lives

By Heather Martin | June 28, 2021

The Humble Beginnings of the American Circus

The Humble Beginnings of the American Circus

Les Standiford on James Bailey's Hard-Scrabble Roots

By Les Standiford | June 24, 2021

John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

Lives Lived on the Opposite Sides of the American Dream

By Jonny Diamond | June 18, 2021

Move over, tea controversy—turns out Jane Austen’s brother was an abolitionist.

Move over, tea controversy—turns out Jane Austen’s brother was an abolitionist.

By Walker Caplan | June 16, 2021

Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway

Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway

Ellen Barkin Narrates Yours, for Probably Always

By Janet Somerville | June 16, 2021

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Pamela Hamilton on Excavating the Life of Dorothy Hale

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Carrie Mae Weems and the Long History of Collective Self-Institutionalization Among Black Radicals

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Thomas J. Lax Considers the Artist's Emphasis on Convening

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