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Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through

Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through

Emily Van Duyne on the Lure of Charismatic, Abusive Men

By Emily Van Duyne | February 24, 2020

When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the<br> Spanish Civil War

When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the
Spanish Civil War

A Poet Glimpses Franco's Spain

By W. Jason Miller | February 24, 2020

Did Medgar Evers' Killer Go Free Because of Jury Tampering?

Did Medgar Evers' Killer Go Free Because of Jury Tampering?

Jerry Mitchell Revisits a Dark Episode in the Struggle for Civil Rights

By Jerry Mitchell | February 24, 2020

Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson once beat a murder charge by translating some Latin.

Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson once beat a murder charge by translating some Latin.

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 21, 2020

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of<br> Amelia Earhart

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
Amelia Earhart

A Missing Pilot and Her Poems

By Traci Brimhall | February 21, 2020

Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

Don't Let Anyone Tell You Revolutionary History is Boring

By Serena Zabin | February 20, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Football is Everything (Which is to
Say Soccer)

By David Goldblatt | February 19, 2020

How the Well-Educated and Downwardly Mobile Found Socialism

By Charlotte Alter | February 19, 2020

The Romanticized Belle Epoque in Paris Was an Age of Political Crisis

By Julian Barnes | February 18, 2020

Cataloguing Carson McCullers' Clothes: Long Coats, Vests, and Gender Fluidity

Cataloguing Carson McCullers' Clothes: Long Coats, Vests, and Gender Fluidity

Jenn Shapland on What She Found in the Writer's Archives

By Jenn Shapland | February 18, 2020

The Book That Began as an Acid-Fueled Speech at Woodstock

The Book That Began as an Acid-Fueled Speech at Woodstock

When Pete Townshend Whacked Abbie Hoffman Offstage

By Jack Hoffman and Daniel Simon | February 18, 2020

You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine's Day

You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine's Day

But Probably Not For Your Loneliness

By Emily Temple | February 14, 2020

What Can the Artist Do in Dark Times?

What Can the Artist Do in Dark Times?

Paul Scraton on the Life and Legacy of Käthe Kollwitz

By Paul Scraton | February 14, 2020

How Obama’s Reading Shaped His Writing

How Obama’s Reading Shaped His Writing

"Obama-the-writer came before Obama-the-candidate."

By Craig Fehrman | February 13, 2020

Corruption, Inc.: Andrea Bernstein on the Trumps, the Kushners, and the Age of the Oligarchs

Corruption, Inc.: Andrea Bernstein on the Trumps, the Kushners, and the Age of the Oligarchs

The Author of American Oligarchs in Conversation with Dylan Foley

By Dylan Foley | February 13, 2020

Escaping Into Books About the Middle Ages is My Self-Therapy

Escaping Into Books About the Middle Ages is My Self-Therapy

Amber Sparks on How the Black Death Can Give
You a Little Perspective

By Amber Sparks | February 12, 2020

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