The Mysterious Celebrity Miracle Worker of Postwar Germany

The Mysterious Celebrity Miracle Worker of Postwar Germany

Who—and What—Was Bruno Bernhard Gröning?

By Monica Black | November 17, 2020

The Lost Digital Poems (and Erotica) of William H. Dickey

The Lost Digital Poems (and Erotica) of William H. Dickey

Matthew Kirschenbaum on Recovering Artifacts of Another Time

By Matthew Kirschenbaum | November 16, 2020

How Woody Guthrie's Mother Shaped His Music of the Downtrodden

How Woody Guthrie's Mother Shaped His Music of the Downtrodden

Gustavus Stadler on Nora Belle Guthrie's Battle
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By Gustavus Stadler | November 16, 2020

Alex Trebek's Life in <br>Three Timelines

Alex Trebek's Life in
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Claire McNear Behind the Scenes with the Beloved Host of Jeopardy!

By Claire McNear | November 10, 2020

Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

David Lazar on Two Wounded Men Who Frustrated Expectations

By David Lazar | November 9, 2020

How Claire Malroux's Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

How Claire Malroux's Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

Marilyn Hacker on Memory, Materiality, and Family

By Marilyn Hacker | November 9, 2020

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On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

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How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain's Honor Code

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On Sylvia Plath's Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists' Colony

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Hiroko Oyamada Wrote Her First Book, <em>The Factory</em>, in the Factory Where She Worked

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David Boyd on a Writer Who Follows the Weirdness

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How Audre Lorde's Experience of Breast Cancer Fortified Her Revolutionary Politics

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