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The Mysterious Man Who Discovered Neurons and Changed Science Forever

The Mysterious Man Who Discovered Neurons and Changed Science Forever

Benjamin Ehrlich on Studying the Genius Santiago Ramón y Cajal

By Benjamin Ehrlich | March 15, 2022

The Huntington has acquired Eve Babitz’s archive.

The Huntington has acquired Eve Babitz’s archive.

By Walker Caplan | March 11, 2022

On the Centenary of Jack Kerouac’s Birth, Rarely Seen Archival Material from His Publisher

On the Centenary of Jack Kerouac’s Birth, Rarely Seen Archival Material from His Publisher

“You are right in thinking I am interested in Kerouac and his work.”

By Literary Hub | March 11, 2022

Lenin in Paris: When the City Was a Refuge for Russian Artists and Dissidents

Lenin in Paris: When the City Was a Refuge for Russian Artists and Dissidents

Helen Rappaport on Café Life in 1900s

By Helen Rappaport | March 11, 2022

Choosing Our Literary Kin: Remembering Valerie Boyd

Choosing Our Literary Kin: Remembering Valerie Boyd

Sejal Shah on the Life and Times of a Beloved Writer and Editor 

By Sejal Shah | March 10, 2022

The Life of Darryl Hunt, Before His Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment

The Life of Darryl Hunt, Before His Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment

Phoebe Zerwick on Family and Loss in Hunt’s Early Years

By Phoebe Zerwick | March 9, 2022

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When Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat Took the 1980s NYC Art Scene by Storm

By Dieter Buchhart | March 7, 2022

Finding Inspiration in Willa Cather’s Belief in the Necessity of Art

By Ladette Randolph | March 7, 2022

The Nonfictional George Soros: Better Than Any Novel

By Keen On | March 7, 2022

Revisiting Robert Mapplethorpe’s Years on West Twenty-Third Street

Revisiting Robert Mapplethorpe’s Years on West Twenty-Third Street

Christiane Bird on the Photographer’s Residence on a Changing Block

By Christiane Bird | March 3, 2022

The Fake Spiritualist Medium, the <em>Scientific American</em> Editor, and His Wife

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Sharon DeBartolo Carmack on a Real-Life Nightmare Alley

By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack | March 3, 2022

Marcel Duchamp’s First Three Great Rejections

Marcel Duchamp’s First Three Great Rejections

Ruth Brandon on the Seismic Events in the Artist’s Young Life

By Ruth Brandon | March 2, 2022

On the Ukrainian Poets Who Lived and Died Under Soviet Suppression

On the Ukrainian Poets Who Lived and Died Under Soviet Suppression

Myroslav Laiuk Revisits an Empire That Executed Its Artists

By Myroslav Laiuk | March 1, 2022

Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation

Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation

“Even in photographs it looked as if his soul had been ‘pumped out of him.’’

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | March 1, 2022

J.D. Dickey on the Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson’s America

J.D. Dickey on the Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson’s America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 1, 2022

Dana Stevens on Writing a “Zigzagging Biography” of Buster Keaton

Dana Stevens on Writing a “Zigzagging Biography” of Buster Keaton

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

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