How Does the Great Dolly Parton Write a Song?

How Does the Great Dolly Parton Write a Song?

Lydia R. Hamessley on Memory, Musical Storytelling, and "Coat of Many Colors"

By Lydia R. Hamessley | October 14, 2020

How Audre Lorde's Experience of Breast Cancer Fortified Her Revolutionary Politics

How Audre Lorde's Experience of Breast Cancer Fortified Her Revolutionary Politics

Tracy K. Smith on The Cancer Journals

By Tracy K. Smith | October 14, 2020

Voting Isn't Guaranteed—Black Women Know That Better Than Anyone

Voting Isn't Guaranteed—Black Women Know That Better Than Anyone

Martha S. Jones in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 14, 2020

On Jewish Community and Identity in Jacques Derrida's Algeria

On Jewish Community and Identity in Jacques Derrida's Algeria

Peter Salmon Considers the Philosopher's Early Life

By Peter Salmon | October 14, 2020

A Young John Berryman Writes R.P. Blackmur About His Favorite Poets

A Young John Berryman Writes R.P. Blackmur About His Favorite Poets

From The Selected Letters

By John Berryman | October 14, 2020

Emily X.R. Pan on How Writing a Short Story Can Lead to a Better Novel

Emily X.R. Pan on How Writing a Short Story Can Lead to a Better Novel

"That short story taught me to experiment."

By Emily X.R. Pan | October 14, 2020

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Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

Anaïs Duplan on Popular Language, Outside Figures, and the Struggle for Recognition

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Cinelle Barnes on Compiling an Anthology of the South

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Journalist Nomi Prins Explains That $7 Trillion the Fed Magically Created

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How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

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H. W. Brands on the Early Life of an American Avenger

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Rumaan Alam Recommends the Music of <em>Leave the World Behind</em>

Rumaan Alam Recommends the Music of Leave the World Behind

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By So Many Damn Books | October 14, 2020

Burlesque Star Immodesty Blaize on Starting Her Career in Soho

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From Damian Barr's Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | October 14, 2020

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon's Descent to War

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon's Descent to War

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