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“You Can’t Leave Your Folk at the Door.” On Queer Life in Appalachia

“You Can’t Leave Your Folk at the Door.” On Queer Life in Appalachia

Rae Garringer Talks to Elandria Williams in Knoxville, Tennessee

By Rae Garringer | October 17, 2024

Here's why Han Kang is refusing to celebrate her Nobel Prize.

Here's why Han Kang is refusing to celebrate her Nobel Prize.

By Brittany Allen | October 15, 2024

Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary

Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary

“Mary Mallon was a cook. And her story, first and foremost, is the story of a cook.”

By Anthony Bourdain | October 15, 2024

How American Jews Created a Place For Themselves in Show Business

How American Jews Created a Place For Themselves in Show Business

Richard Bernstein on the Early Years of Mass Entertainment in the United States

By Richard Bernstein | October 9, 2024

On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

Elias Altman Remembers His Boss' Advice on Writing, Editing, and When a Deal's a Deal

By Elias Altman | October 7, 2024

Looking After the Books: Remembering Children’s Author Joan Aiken

Looking After the Books: Remembering Children’s Author Joan Aiken

Lizza Aiken on the Responsibility of Maintaining Her Mother's Literary Legacy

By Lizza Aiken | September 30, 2024

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Sara Fitzgerald on Unrequited Love and a Recently Declassified Epistolary Correspondence

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How Weimar Berlin Inspired Christopher Isherwood’s <em>Sally Bowles</em>

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Katherine Bucknell on the Tumultuous World That Made the Novella and Its Protagonist

By Katherine Bucknell | August 26, 2024

More Than a Muse: On Salvadoran Artist and Wife of Antoine, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

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Gina María Balibrera Paints a Picture of the Forgotten Woman of Surrealism Who Inspired Her Novel

By Gina María Balibrera | August 23, 2024

A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North

A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North

Colin Dickey Goes All the Way to Svalbard to Read “A Woman in the Polar Night”

By Colin Dickey | August 22, 2024

Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire

Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on the Life and Legacy of the Iconic Black Feminist Poet and Activist

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs | August 20, 2024

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