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Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

"He is not a witch, he is bewitched.”

By Jean Genet | February 24, 2020

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of<br> Amelia Earhart

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
Amelia Earhart

A Missing Pilot and Her Poems

By Traci Brimhall | February 21, 2020

In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

Michelle Chihara Digs Through the Didion Family's Land Records

By Michelle Chihara | February 14, 2020

Lawrence of Arabia Understood the Middle East Better Than Many Modern Leaders

Lawrence of Arabia Understood the Middle East Better Than Many Modern Leaders

Lessons to Remember from a Model Outsider

By Dale Maharidge | February 6, 2020

The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

The (Mostly Unknowable) Life of a Fraud

By Adam Sisman | February 3, 2020

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

A Day in the Life of a Jailed Writer and Human Rights Advocate

By Kaya Genç | January 31, 2020

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It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer's Block

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The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks' Life in Detroit

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Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

By Patrick Modiano | January 27, 2020

The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

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Schwartz's Supporters Compared Him to Eliot, Pound, and Auden

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John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

“To become a true American a white American’s identity
must partake of blackness.”

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Meet a Bad Man Who Became<br> a Truly Great Spy

Meet a Bad Man Who Became
a Truly Great Spy

Owen Matthews on Richard Sorge, Master of Espionage

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The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

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Judith Arcana on the Writer's Upbringing, Marriage, Motherhood, and Career

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From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of <br>Daily Life, c. 1979

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
Daily Life, c. 1979

“Memo: do not drink coffee. It engenders baseless optimism about
my powers of creation.”

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The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

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John F. Callahan Looks at What Decades of Correspondence Can Reveal

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