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Dorothy Parker: Political Activist, Melancholic, Bootleg Scotch-Drinker

Dorothy Parker: Political Activist, Melancholic, Bootleg Scotch-Drinker

Life is Long, Wit is Brief

By Mervyn Horder | May 1, 2019

On the Great Clarice Lispector

On the Great Clarice Lispector

Benjamin Moser Introduces The Besieged City

By Benjamin Moser | April 30, 2019

James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of <em>Giovanni's Room</em>

James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of Giovanni's Room

"If France proffered him love, it also bathed him in a peculiar shade of loneliness."

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 25, 2019

Germaine Greer and the Cusp of<br> the Feminist Revolution

Germaine Greer and the Cusp of
the Feminist Revolution

On the Early Days of the Women's Liberation Movement

By Elizabeth Kleinhenz | April 19, 2019

The Cautionary Patriotism of<br> the Presidents Adams

The Cautionary Patriotism of
the Presidents Adams

Father and Son Alike, Suspicious of Too Much Charisma

By Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein | April 18, 2019

When Nelson Algren Fell in Love with Simone de Beauvoir

When Nelson Algren Fell in Love with Simone de Beauvoir

The Start of a Seven-Month Affair That Changed Both Writers' Lives

By Colin Asher | April 17, 2019

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Olive Schreiner: Charlotte Brontë of South Africa, 19th-Century Celebrity

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On Compassion and Dissent in an Outpost of Empire

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"For Adler there is no room for escape. . ."

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The Unlikely Friendship Between a Philosopher and an Empress

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When Catherine the Great Met Denis Diderot

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The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

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One Family's Story of the Great Migration North

One Family's Story of the Great Migration North

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