• Biography

    Biography

    Shirley Jackson Wasn’t Actually a Witch

    By Ruth Franklin  September 28, 2016
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    When Young Rilke Moved to the Big City and Met Rodin

    By Rachel Corbett  September 23, 2016
    Biography

    One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

    By Charles Arrowsmith  September 14, 2016
    Biography

    On the Celibate Love Affair of Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols

    By Richard Cohen  September 12, 2016
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    Swimming in the Sink

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 8, 2016
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    How Borges Taught Me to Embrace My Jewish Heritage

    By Ilan Stavans  September 2, 2016
    Biography

    Dispatches From A Punk Tour of the Balkans

    By Franz Nicolay  September 2, 2016
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    Slow Days, Fast Company

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 29, 2016
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    Reading D.H. Lawrence on a Remote Swedish Island

    By Fredrik Sjöberg  August 29, 2016
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    Islamophobia in the Trial of Adnan Syed

    By Rabia Chaudry  August 24, 2016
    Biography

    The Woman Who Launched a Newspaper During WWII

    By Alice Arlen and Michael J. Arlen  August 24, 2016
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    Svetlana Alexievich Grapples with Putin’s Russia

    By Svetlana Alexievich  August 22, 2016
    Profile

    When a Descendent of Witch Hunters Writes a Novel About Salem

    By Matthew Daddona  August 8, 2016
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    I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 3, 2016
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    Catching Wild Bill and Jane: The End of a Killing Spree in Panama

    By Nick Foster  July 13, 2016
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    Dog Gone

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 17, 2016
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    Living With A Dead Language

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 15, 2016
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    Falling: A Daughter, A Father, and a Journey Back

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 13, 2016
    Biography

    The Origins of Diane Arbus’s Most Famous Photograph

    By Arthur Lubow  June 9, 2016
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    Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security Prison

    By Mikita Brottman  June 6, 2016
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    The Night Cassius Clay Beat Sonny Liston

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 4, 2016
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    When Two Feminists of Color Fall in Love

    By Ana Castillo  May 13, 2016
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    The Vanishing Velazquez

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 29, 2016
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    The Bronte Cabinet

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 21, 2016
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    The Conflicted Early Feminism of Louisa Catherine Adams

    By Louisa Thomas  April 14, 2016
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