• Biography

    Pirates

    Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

    By Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos  December 1, 2022
    Just the Right Book

    Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

    By Just the Right Book   December 1, 2022
    Literary History

    Amusing, Disturbing, Delightful: Celebrating Jean Stafford

    By Mary Gordon  November 30, 2022
    Keen On

    When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

    By Keen On  November 29, 2022
    Film Studies

    Tracing Bong Joon Ho’s Rise to Fame, from Secret Government Blacklist to Making Oscars History

    By Karen Han  November 28, 2022
    Literary History

    Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

    By Paul Lafargue  November 28, 2022
    Literary History

    How Virginia Woolf Shunned—and Then Embraced—T.S. Eliot

    By Lyndall Gordon  November 23, 2022
    Painting

    Zelda Fitzgerald: Writer, Muse, and… Painter?

    By Eleanor Lanahan  November 23, 2022
    American History

    How Thomas Jefferson’s Writing Established the Stories of Colonial America

    By Fred Kaplan  November 23, 2022
    Diaries

    Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

    By Cullen Murphy  November 21, 2022
    Jane Austen

    How Jane Austen Almost Walked Away From Writing

    By Anna Beer  November 18, 2022
    Activism

    “Polluters Will Be Looked Upon as Swine.” On Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmental Activism

    By Christina Jarvis  November 17, 2022
    Rock'n'roll

    On Chuck Berry’s Early Literary Influences

    By RJ Smith  November 16, 2022
    The Writing Life

    How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

    By Brigitta Olubas  November 15, 2022
    The Writing Life

    “Maybe Broccoli Doesn’t Like You Either” (Lot 151) On the Allure of Joan Didion’s Objects

    By Mary Kate Frank  November 15, 2022
    Relationships

    Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin through Their Postcards to Each Other

    By Chip Livingston  November 14, 2022
    Soccer

    How Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi Became Superstars On and Off the Field

    By Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg  November 11, 2022
    Everything Was Beautiful

    How to Celebrate 100 Years of Kurt Vonnegut

    By Literary Hub  November 11, 2022
    Pilgrimages

    Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 9, 2022
    Indigenous History

    How Grief and Revenge Made Geronimo Into a Legendary War Chief

    By H.W. Brands  November 8, 2022
    Children's Literature

    Lynn Caponera on the Wild and Wonderful Legacy of Maurice Sendak

    By Lynn Caponera  November 3, 2022
    American History

    How Samuel Adams Fought for Independence—Anonymously

    By Stacy Schiff  November 3, 2022
    Keen On

    Perhaps the Most Remarkable Thing About Charlie Watts Was Just How Remarkably Ordinary He Was

    By Keen On  November 2, 2022
    The Occult

    Out of the Shadows: On the Forgotten Mothers of the Occult

    By Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson  October 31, 2022
    Food Writing

    “I’d Read Her Grocery Lists.” On Cooking with Sylvia Plath

    By Eliza Dumais  October 27, 2022
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