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Life After ABBA: One Day in London With Agnetha Fältskog

Life After ABBA: One Day in London With Agnetha Fältskog

Jan Gradvall Sits Down With the Lead Singer of the Iconic Swedish Pop Group

By Jan Gradvall | June 17, 2025

Art Imitates Life: Who Was the Real Woman Behind André Breton’s <em>Nadja</em>?

Art Imitates Life: Who Was the Real Woman Behind André Breton’s Nadja?

Mark Polizzotti Explores the Cultural Landscape of 1920s Paris Through the Eyes of the Surrealists and Their Muses

By Mark Polizzoti | June 16, 2025

“The Finch Interested Me...” In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham and the Magazine He Founded

“The Finch Interested Me...” In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham and the Magazine He Founded

Donovan Hohn Remembers a Mentor

By Donovan Hohn | June 13, 2025

Decline and Fall of the Spinach Kings: On the Wilting of a Family Dynasty

Decline and Fall of the Spinach Kings: On the Wilting of a Family Dynasty

John Seabrook Explores a History of Wealth, Enterprise, and Family Dysfunction

By John Seabrook | June 11, 2025

The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

Alec Nevala-Lee on the Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist's Experimental Approach to Scientific Inquiry

By Alec Nevala-Lee | June 11, 2025

To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

A’Lelia Bundles on Writing About Her Great-Grandmother, A’Lelia Walker, America's first Black Celebrity Heiress

By A'Lelia Bundles | June 11, 2025

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How Charles Sumner Convinced Abraham Lincoln and the Union To Take a Stand Against Slavery

By Zaakir Tameez | June 11, 2025

Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country

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On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

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Writer Edmund White has died at 85.

Writer Edmund White has died at 85.

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Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

Mark Kriegel on Tyson’s Unstable Childhood, Lorna Mae, and the Fighter’s Historic Obsession

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Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

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Chronicle of a Hard-Won Defeat: Steve Prefontaine's Olympic Debut

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The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has died.

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Bringing the War Home: How Tim O'Brien Approached the Art of Moral Consequence

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