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Liberty or Death: On the Prophetic Visions and Unflinching Will of<br> Harriet Tubman

Liberty or Death: On the Prophetic Visions and Unflinching Will of
Harriet Tubman

Dorothy Wickenden Recounts the Early Life of an American Hero

By Dorothy Wickenden | March 31, 2021

A Radical Education: How Greenwich Village Transformed Eleanor Roosevelt

A Radical Education: How Greenwich Village Transformed Eleanor Roosevelt

Jan Jarboe Russell on the Friendships That Inspired and Nourished a Former First Lady

By Jan Jarboe Russell | March 30, 2021

A Novel Life: On the Literary and Political Legacy of<br> Edward Said

A Novel Life: On the Literary and Political Legacy of
Edward Said

Timothy Brennan: “He was never much drawn to academic fashions.”

By Timothy Brennan | March 29, 2021

Just what you never knew you always wanted: a playlist of Jane Austen’s favorite songs.

Just what you never knew you always wanted: a playlist of Jane Austen’s favorite songs.

By Walker Caplan | March 26, 2021

Larry McMurtry, <em>Lonesome Dove</em> author (and sly American existentialist), dies at 84.

Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove author (and sly American existentialist), dies at 84.

By Jonny Diamond | March 26, 2021

Read Tennessee Williams’s first published short story. (It’s weird.)

Read Tennessee Williams’s first published short story. (It’s weird.)

By Walker Caplan | March 26, 2021

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On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

By David Quammen | March 26, 2021

How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

By Kelsey Osgood | March 26, 2021

A new original draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has just been discovered.

By Walker Caplan | March 24, 2021

Women of the New Frontier: On the Trailblazers Who Reimagined Television

Women of the New Frontier: On the Trailblazers Who Reimagined Television

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Considers a Forgotten Chapter in the History of Broadcast Culture

By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong | March 24, 2021

Why Alfred Hitchcock’s Films Still Feel Dangerous

Why Alfred Hitchcock’s Films Still Feel Dangerous

David Thomson on a Genius of Cinema

By David Thomson | March 24, 2021

Helen Frankenthaler: From High Society to Downtown Art Scene in 1950s NYC

Helen Frankenthaler: From High Society to Downtown Art Scene in 1950s NYC

Alexander Nemerov on the Life and Times an American Painter

By Alexander Nemerov | March 23, 2021

Adrian Piper on the Earned Power of Self-Identification

Adrian Piper on the Earned Power of Self-Identification

Reclaiming Labels and Rejecting the Boxes Constructed by the Dominant Establishment

By Shaun Usher | March 23, 2021

Listen to a wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

Listen to a wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

By Walker Caplan | March 22, 2021

Patron Saint of the Wall Street Fraudster: Who Was <br>Charles Ponzi?

Patron Saint of the Wall Street Fraudster: Who Was
Charles Ponzi?

Dan Davies on Rise and Fall of the Eponymous Schemer

By Dan Davies | March 22, 2021

How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy

How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy

Paulina Bren on Life at New York's Most Famous Women’s-Only Hotel

By Paulina Bren | March 19, 2021

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