Pride and Property: <br>On the Homes of Jane Austen

Pride and Property:
On the Homes of Jane Austen

Phyllis Richardson on the Manors, Rectories, and Cottages That Influenced Austen's Domestic Writing

By Phyllis Richardson | May 14, 2021

How Do You Write a Biography Filled With Unreliable Witnesses?

How Do You Write a Biography Filled With Unreliable Witnesses?

Emily Midorikawa on the Challenges of Reconstructing Lived Histories

By Emily Midorikawa | May 12, 2021

Should Norman Mailer Have Any Legacy Beyond Being the Guy Who Stabbed His Wife?

Should Norman Mailer Have Any Legacy Beyond Being the Guy Who Stabbed His Wife?

Miranda Popkey Guests on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | May 11, 2021

About all those unproduced screenplays William Faulkner wrote . . .

About all those unproduced screenplays William Faulkner wrote . . .

By Walker Caplan | May 10, 2021

"If I could only see it!" Read a newly unearthed letter from Tennessee Williams to Eugene O’Neill.

By Walker Caplan | May 7, 2021

Marching the Streets of San Francisco With Novelist and Activist, Kay Boyle

Marching the Streets of San Francisco With Novelist and Activist, Kay Boyle

Marianne Goldsmith on the Hero Whose Name We Should All Know

By Marianne Goldsmith | May 7, 2021

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Excavating the Life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Author of an American Classic

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On the Friendship and Rivalry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton

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Gail Crowther Considers How Two Literary Icons Challenged and Inspired Each Other

By Gail Crowther | April 28, 2021

How a Bold Young American Changed the Way Scholars Think About Homer

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Robert Kanigel on the Unlikely Legacy of Milman Parry

By Robert Kanigel | April 28, 2021

Why Nabokov’s poem about Superman’s sex life was rejected by <em>The New Yorker</em>.

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Life Beyond Act One: Why We Need More Stories About Older Women

Life Beyond Act One: Why We Need More Stories About Older Women

Mary Sharratt on Moving Beyond Coming of Age

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