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Wayne Macauley on <br>Gerald Murnane's Most Memorable Book

Wayne Macauley on
Gerald Murnane's Most Memorable Book

Considering "Cultural Cringe" and the Issue of Literary Influence

By Wayne Macauley | November 24, 2020

The Writer Who Uncovered Crimes Against His Native Ancestors

The Writer Who Uncovered Crimes Against His Native Ancestors

David Grann on Dennis McAuliffe Jr.'s The Deaths of Sybil Bolton

By David Grann | November 20, 2020

Why Harry Houdini DID NOT Like Arthur Conan Doyle

Why Harry Houdini DID NOT Like Arthur Conan Doyle

When the Rational Trickster Meets the Credulous Rationalist

By Chris Gosden | November 19, 2020

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
with Huntington's Disease

By Gustavus Stadler | November 16, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Alex Trebek's Life in
Three Timelines

By Claire McNear | November 10, 2020

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

By David Lazar | November 9, 2020

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

By Marilyn Hacker | November 9, 2020

The First Mughal Emperor's Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

The First Mughal Emperor's Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

William Dalrymple on the 16th-Century Memoir, Babur Nama

By William Dalrymple | November 5, 2020

Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

Examining the Intellectual Life of Alexander Herzen

By Pankaj Mishra | November 2, 2020

Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson's<br> First Novel

Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson's
First Novel

Madelaine Lucas Explores the Tensions Between Creative Work and Domestic Life

By Madelaine Lucas | October 29, 2020

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

Emily Van Duyne on Heather Clark's Red Comet

By Emily Van Duyne | October 29, 2020

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

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

Nicholas McDowell Navigates Heaven, Hell, and Everything In-Between

By Nicholas McDowell | October 29, 2020

How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain's Honor Code

How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain's Honor Code

Mark Salter in Conversation with Roxanne Coady on the Just the Right Book Podcast

By Just the Right Book | October 29, 2020

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

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

Good Things Happen When Writers Can Escape the World's Demands

By Heather Clark | October 28, 2020

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