• History

    Essay

    When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

    By Emily Temple  April 4, 2018
    Essay

    Masha Gessen: Inside the Gulags of the Soviet Union

    By Masha Gessen  March 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, and the Tumultuous Summer of 1962

    By Andrea Barnet  March 23, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

    By Edward J. Larson  March 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    Maeve Brennan: On the Life of a Great Irish Writer, and Its Sad End

    By Kathleen Hill  March 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    In Which Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin Discuss Carson McCullers (and More)

    By Literary Hub  March 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    How a Letter from Einstein Saved a Scientist from Nazi Germany

    By Gerald Weissmann  March 15, 2018
    Excerpts

    Battling American Obfuscation as a Young Black Reporter in Vietnam

    By Mary Frances Berry  March 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    Did Thoreau Actually Live on Walden Pond?

    By Robert Thorson  March 12, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Leo and Gertrude Stein Revolutionized the Art World

    By Miles J. Unger  March 12, 2018
    Conversations

    Networks: Another Thing Silicon Valley Didn’t Actually Invent

    By Andrew Keen  March 9, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Onstage Origins of Van Morrison’s Legendary Astral Weeks

    By Ryan H. Walsh  March 7, 2018
    Excerpts

    I Call Your Name Whenever I Can: The Letters of Pat Parker and Audre Lorde

    By Literary Hub  March 7, 2018
    Excerpts

    When Rousseau Advocated for Book-Burning

    By William Marx  March 2, 2018
    Excerpts

    Acquiring Books for the Greatest Libraries in the World

    By Alexander Bevilacqua  February 23, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Spiritual Sisters of Simone de Beauvoir

    By Agnès Poirier  February 22, 2018
    Feature

    25 Legendary Literary Feuds, Ranked

    By Emily Temple  February 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    Kafka Was a Terrible Boyfriend

    By Eleanor Bass  February 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance

    By Marilyn Yalom  February 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Horse: Beloved Metaphor of Your Favorite 19th-Century Novelists

    By Ulrich Raulff  February 12, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Wagner Tried to Revolutionize Art and End Capitalism

    By Simon Callow  February 7, 2018
    Excerpts

    Capturing the Artists, Hustlers, and Junkies of 1960s Pittsburgh

    By Mark Whitaker  February 1, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the Death of JFK and the Birth of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”

    By Joshua Zeitz  February 1, 2018
    Excerpts

    During World War II, Literature Reigned Supreme

    By George Hutchinson  January 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

    By Justin Spring  January 18, 2018
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