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Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

Alex Thomas on Lynn Novick and Ken Burns’s New Documentary

By Alex Thomas | April 14, 2021

Goatskin, Tree Bark, and One Expensive Scribe: How “The King of the World’s Booksellers” Produced Manuscripts

Goatskin, Tree Bark, and One Expensive Scribe: How “The King of the World’s Booksellers” Produced Manuscripts

Ross King on the Laborious Process of Bookmaking in the 15th Century

By Ross King | April 13, 2021

Watch Kathy Acker read from <em>The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec</em>.

Watch Kathy Acker read from The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

Cuomo staffers were (illegally) asked to work on Cuomo's memoir as part of their government jobs.

Cuomo staffers were (illegally) asked to work on Cuomo's memoir as part of their government jobs.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

Andrea Pitzer on the Heroic—and Horrific—Arctic Voyages of William Barents

Andrea Pitzer on the Heroic—and Horrific—Arctic Voyages of William Barents

From the Time to Eat the Dogs Podcast with Michael Robinson

By Time to Eat the Dogs | April 12, 2021

How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

Shanna Greene Benjamin on the Broader Narrative of
Black Women’s Intellectualism

By Shanna Greene Benjamin | April 12, 2021

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Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code book.

By Walker Caplan | April 9, 2021

How Dorothea Nutzhorn Chased the Promise of Possibility and Became Dorothea Lange

By Jasmin Darznik | April 9, 2021

Are you a Tolkien fan? Contribute to this oral history collection.

By Walker Caplan | April 8, 2021

On the Years When Jane Austen Couldn't Write

On the Years When Jane Austen Couldn't Write

An Illustrated Look at the Effects of Worry and Uncertainty on a Literary Icon

By Hannah K. Chapman, Lauren Burke, & Kaley Bales | April 8, 2021

How Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait Helped Me Tell Her Story

How Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait Helped Me Tell Her Story

Michaela Carter on the Mysteries of Writing Breakthroughs

By Michaela Carter | April 8, 2021

A Conversation with Selma van de Perre, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

A Conversation with Selma van de Perre, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | April 8, 2021

Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World

Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World

Damien Bador on the Origins of a Fantasy Classic

By Damien Bador | April 8, 2021

Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

By Walker Caplan | April 7, 2021

Translating Brodsky: On the Undeniable Legacy of George L. Kline

Translating Brodsky: On the Undeniable Legacy of George L. Kline

Cynthia L. Haven Celebrates the Life and Work of an Unsung Translator and Intellectual

By Cynthia L. Haven | April 5, 2021

How to Write a Woman Back Into History

How to Write a Woman Back Into History

Introducing the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | April 2, 2021

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