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On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People's Lives

On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People's Lives

The Biographer Who Crafted Stories of Self-Transformation

By Jonas Gardsby | October 7, 2020

On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

Kerri Andrews Considers What It Means to Have a Genius for Place

By Kerri Andrews | October 7, 2020

Reading the Travelogues of Percy Fawcett, Explorer of the Lost City of Z

Reading the Travelogues of Percy Fawcett, Explorer of the Lost City of Z

A.J. Lees on Exploration Fawcett

By A.J. Lees | October 6, 2020

The Shape of His Stories: In Praise of Edward P. Jones

The Shape of His Stories: In Praise of Edward P. Jones

Elizabeth Poliner Returns to Three Stories in Lost in the City

By Elizabeth Poliner | October 5, 2020

A Conversion of Suffering: At the Intersection of Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Paul Celan

A Conversion of Suffering: At the Intersection of Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Paul Celan

Jamieson Webster Analyzes the Prose of a Famous Poet

By Jamieson Webster | October 2, 2020

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, September Edition

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, September Edition

The lives of Stephen Hawking, Toussaint Louverture, Adolf Hitler, and more

By Book Marks | September 29, 2020

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Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

By Brian Dillon | September 28, 2020

Was Abstract Art Actually Invented by a Mid-19th-Century Spiritualist?

By Jennifer Dasal | September 23, 2020

What Is So Special About Balzac's Thousands of Characters?

By Peter Brooks | September 23, 2020

When Jimi Hendrix Took the UK by Storm

When Jimi Hendrix Took the UK by Storm

And Eric Clapton Realized He May Have to Hand Over the Crown

By Philip Norman | September 17, 2020

Remembering Timothy Findley on His Home Ground

Remembering Timothy Findley on His Home Ground

Sherrill Grace on the Life and Legacy of a Great Canadian Writer

By Sherrill Grace | September 10, 2020

The Humble Confidence of Seamus Heaney

The Humble Confidence of Seamus Heaney

R. F. Foster on the Poet's Roots, Influences, and Individuality

By R. F. Foster | August 31, 2020

The Wife of

The Wife of "Italy's George Washington" Was a Radical in Her Own Right

Anita Garibaldi Was More Than a Political Spouse

By Diana Giovinazzo | August 26, 2020

On the Similarities (and Differences) Between Donald Trump and Teddy Roosevelt

On the Similarities (and Differences) Between Donald Trump and Teddy Roosevelt

David Gessner in Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On

By Keen On | August 21, 2020

Want to throw a wrench in your reading habit? Read the fantastical life of a saint.

Want to throw a wrench in your reading habit? Read the fantastical life of a saint.

By Aaron Robertson | August 20, 2020

On Mary King Ward, 19th-Century Celebrity Scientist

On Mary King Ward, 19th-Century Celebrity Scientist

(Who Also Happens to be the First Person to Die From a Car Accident)

By Emily Willingham | August 14, 2020

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