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How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

Mark Edmundson on the Great American Poet as Defender of Democracy

By Mark Edmundson | April 16, 2021

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

Kim Todd Remembers the Fearless Women Who Changed the Trajectory of Memoir and Reporting

By Kim Todd | April 16, 2021

How Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg Found Their Voices at NPR

How Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg Found Their Voices at NPR

Lisa Napoli on Four Radical Women Who Changed
Broadcast Journalism

By Lisa Napoli | April 15, 2021

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Alex Thomas on Lynn Novick and Ken Burns’s New Documentary

By Alex Thomas | April 14, 2021

Goatskin, Tree Bark, and One Expensive Scribe: How “The King of the World’s Booksellers” Produced Manuscripts

Goatskin, Tree Bark, and One Expensive Scribe: How “The King of the World’s Booksellers” Produced Manuscripts

Ross King on the Laborious Process of Bookmaking in the 15th Century

By Ross King | April 13, 2021

Watch Kathy Acker read from <em>The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec</em>.

Watch Kathy Acker read from The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

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Cuomo staffers were (illegally) asked to work on Cuomo's memoir as part of their government jobs.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

Andrea Pitzer on the Heroic—and Horrific—Arctic Voyages of William Barents

By Time to Eat the Dogs | April 12, 2021

How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

By Shanna Greene Benjamin | April 12, 2021

Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code book.

Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code book.

By Walker Caplan | April 9, 2021

How Dorothea Nutzhorn Chased the Promise of Possibility and Became Dorothea Lange

How Dorothea Nutzhorn Chased the Promise of Possibility and Became Dorothea Lange

Jasmin Darznik on the Beginnings of a Legendary Photographer

By Jasmin Darznik | April 9, 2021

Are you a Tolkien fan? Contribute to this oral history collection.

Are you a Tolkien fan? Contribute to this oral history collection.

By Walker Caplan | April 8, 2021

On the Years When Jane Austen Couldn't Write

On the Years When Jane Austen Couldn't Write

An Illustrated Look at the Effects of Worry and Uncertainty on a Literary Icon

By Hannah K. Chapman, Lauren Burke, & Kaley Bales | April 8, 2021

How Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait Helped Me Tell Her Story

How Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait Helped Me Tell Her Story

Michaela Carter on the Mysteries of Writing Breakthroughs

By Michaela Carter | April 8, 2021

A Conversation with Selma van de Perre, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

A Conversation with Selma van de Perre, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | April 8, 2021

Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World

Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World

Damien Bador on the Origins of a Fantasy Classic

By Damien Bador | April 8, 2021

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