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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

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Equivalents</em> by Maggie Doherty

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty

Tara Wanda Merrigan on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Tara Wanda Merrigan | March 19, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Price of Peace</em> by Zachary D. Carter

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter

Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 18, 2021

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Robert Alter on Nabokov’s Literary Invention

By Robert Alter | March 17, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Dead Are Arising</em> by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 16, 2021

On that time John Wilkes Booth and his brothers starred in <em>Julius Caesar.</em>

On that time John Wilkes Booth and his brothers starred in Julius Caesar.

By Walker Caplan | March 15, 2021

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Existence as Resistance: How Josephine Baker Challenged Misogynoir

By Terri Simone Francis | March 12, 2021

After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

By Josephine Rowe | March 11, 2021

A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

By Harmony Holiday | March 11, 2021

How Kurt Wolff Transformed Pantheon into a 20th-Century Publishing Powerhouse

How Kurt Wolff Transformed Pantheon into a 20th-Century Publishing Powerhouse

Alexander Wolff on the Life and Career of His Celebrated Grandfather

By Alexander Wolff | March 10, 2021

Here’s the literary Twitter bot that’s helped me survive lockdown.

Here’s the literary Twitter bot that’s helped me survive lockdown.

By Jonny Diamond | March 9, 2021

Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

Robert Zaretsky on the Philosophy of Negative Effort

By Robert Zaretsky | March 9, 2021

Home is a Living Sketchbook: Inside the Artistic Design of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

Home is a Living Sketchbook: Inside the Artistic Design of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

On the Transformation of a Creative Couple's Domestic Space, Structures, and Roles

By Melissa Wyse | March 4, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Red Comet</em> by Heather Clark

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Red Comet by Heather Clark

Tara Wanda Merrigan on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Tara Wanda Merrigan | March 3, 2021

D.H. Lawrence was the king of innuendo—but wouldn't admit it.

D.H. Lawrence was the king of innuendo—but wouldn't admit it.

By Walker Caplan | March 2, 2021

How Leonora Carrington Used Tarot to Reach Self-Enlightenment

How Leonora Carrington Used Tarot to Reach Self-Enlightenment

Gabriel Weisz Carrington on His Mother's Quest for Mythic Revelations

By Gabriel Weisz Carrington | March 2, 2021

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