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On the Excoriating Speech Nelson Algren Delivered to College English Students

On the Excoriating Speech Nelson Algren Delivered to College English Students

Colin Asher Guests on the Big Table Podcast

By Big Table | June 10, 2021

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Aminatta Forna Moves Through a Cultural and Personal History of Sleeplessness

By Aminatta Forna | June 9, 2021

Seamus Heaney’s wife is launching a Seamus Heaney-themed walking tour.

Seamus Heaney’s wife is launching a Seamus Heaney-themed walking tour.

By Walker Caplan | June 8, 2021

Private Lives, Public Faces: On What’s Revealed by Hannah Arendt’s Archives

Private Lives, Public Faces: On What’s Revealed by Hannah Arendt’s Archives

Samantha Rose Hill Considers the Importance of Marginalia in the Writing Life

By Samantha Rose Hill | June 8, 2021

The Many Fictional Afterlives of Ethel Rosenberg

The Many Fictional Afterlives of Ethel Rosenberg

Anne Sebba Reads the Rosenbergs of Plath, Doctorow, Kushner and More

By Anne Sebba | June 8, 2021

The Overwhelming Power of Beauty: Deconstructing Edith Hamilton’s <em>Mythology</em> for Modern Times

The Overwhelming Power of Beauty: Deconstructing Edith Hamilton’s Mythology for Modern Times

Kathryn Lofton on Greek and Roman Classics, Scholarship, and Religion

By Kathryn Lofton | June 8, 2021

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On the Cultural Figure—and Lived Reality—of the Blind Writer

By M. Leona Godin | June 7, 2021

Once and For All: Is Drunkenness Actually Good for Art?

By Edward Slingerland | June 7, 2021

On the Storied Life of Miguel de Cervantes and His Greatest Creation, Don Quixote

By History of Literature | June 7, 2021

On the Strange Journey of Ṣägga Krǝstos and His Impact on the Renaissance World

On the Strange Journey of Ṣägga Krǝstos and His Impact on the Renaissance World

From the Time to Eat the Dogs Podcast with Michael Robinson

By Time to Eat the Dogs | June 7, 2021

Watch Allen Ginsberg perform the first song he ever wrote, on the roof of his apartment.

Watch Allen Ginsberg perform the first song he ever wrote, on the roof of his apartment.

By Walker Caplan | June 3, 2021

Dispatches from the “Reconstruction” of Afghanistan, c. 2004

Dispatches from the “Reconstruction” of Afghanistan, c. 2004

Frank Light: “You had to believe the people who sent you had a clue. You had to believe they cared.”

By Frank Light | June 3, 2021

Judy Batalion on the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust

Judy Batalion on the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | June 3, 2021

Jill Lepore on Nazi Propaganda and the Fate of “Axis Sally”

Jill Lepore on Nazi Propaganda and the Fate of “Axis Sally”

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | June 3, 2021

Watch a young Flannery O’Connor teaching her chicken to walk backwards.

Watch a young Flannery O’Connor teaching her chicken to walk backwards.

By Walker Caplan | June 2, 2021

How a Single Cookbook Shaped What It Meant to Be an “American Woman”

How a Single Cookbook Shaped What It Meant to Be an “American Woman”

Jess McHugh on the Complicated Legacy of Betty Crocker

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