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When Rob Reiner’s Alter Ego (Harry) Met Nora Ephron’s Alter Ego (Sally)

When Rob Reiner’s Alter Ego (Harry) Met Nora Ephron’s Alter Ego (Sally)

Kristin Marguerite Doidge Reveals the Real-Life Anecdotes Behind the Classic Rom-Com

By Kristin Marguerite Doidge | June 8, 2022

Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

Jen DeGregorio Investigates the Literary Lives of David Omer Bearden and Alan Bätjer Russo

By Jen DeGregorio | June 6, 2022

How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

Anna Malaika Tubbs in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 2, 2022

How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

Philip Dray on the Murder of Robert Lewis and Wells's Anti-Lynching Exposés

By Philip Dray | June 2, 2022

Why Sofia Coppola Wanted to Make the (Admittedly Obnoxious) <em>Bling Ring</em>

Why Sofia Coppola Wanted to Make the (Admittedly Obnoxious) Bling Ring

“It was so repellent to me and it was repellent to her, too.”

By Hannah Strong | June 1, 2022

What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

Michael Blanding on the (Extremely Compelling) Sir Thomas North Theory

By Michael Blanding | May 31, 2022

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How Leonardo Da Vinci Became the Ultimate Renaissance Man

By Eden Collinsworth | May 24, 2022

Remembering the Kindness and Master Storytelling of Editor and Author George Hodgman

Remembering the Kindness and Master Storytelling of Editor and Author George Hodgman

Gabe Montesanti on Her Friend and Mentor

By Gabe Montesanti | May 24, 2022

Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

“She seems to be expressing a solitariness that is unusual, anti-romantic.”

By Elizabeth Hardwick | May 23, 2022

Behind the Scenes of <em>Ready to Die</em>: An Excerpt from <Em>It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him</em>

Behind the Scenes of Ready to Die: An Excerpt from It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him

Justin Tinsley on the Creation of an Iconic Album

By Justin Tinsley | May 20, 2022

Steve Paul and Henry Schvey on How Evan S. Connell and Tennessee Williams Never Really Left Missouri

Steve Paul and Henry Schvey on How Evan S. Connell and Tennessee Williams Never Really Left Missouri

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 19, 2022

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

The Lesser-Told Story of Cather and Edith Lewis

By Melissa Homestead | May 18, 2022

How to Begin to Understand John Ashbery

How to Begin to Understand John Ashbery

Douglas Crase on the Famously Inscrutable Poet

By Douglas Crase | May 13, 2022

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

“Perhaps more than any visionary before or since, Blake had the creative skill to express what he experienced.”

By John Higgs | May 13, 2022

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