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Bringing Together Kaleidoscopic Plots: A Reading List

Bringing Together Kaleidoscopic Plots: A Reading List

Anna Solomon on the Stories that Guided Her Writing

By Anna Solomon | May 7, 2020

My Grandfather Participated in One of America's Deadliest Racial Conflicts

My Grandfather Participated in One of America's Deadliest Racial Conflicts

J. Chester Johnson on the Elaine Race Massacre of 1919

By J. Chester Johnson | May 6, 2020

Did the Italians Actually Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?

Did the Italians Actually Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?

Bill Buford on the Trail of a Culinary Mystery

By Bill Buford | May 5, 2020

The Louvre Has Survived Wars, Uprisings and Yes, a Plague

The Louvre Has Survived Wars, Uprisings and Yes, a Plague

James Gardner Shows Just How Much the Museum Weathered

By James Gardner | May 5, 2020

Anne Carson on Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy

Anne Carson on Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy

"They had the same power—to stick in the throat of Desire."

By Sarah Moore | May 4, 2020

The Writers Vincent van Gogh Loved, From Charles Dickens to Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Writers Vincent van Gogh Loved, From Charles Dickens to Harriet Beecher Stowe

6 Books Essential to Our Understanding of the Artist

By Mariella Guzzoni | May 4, 2020

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At a Fabled Artist's Colony, Ruth Asawa Found Her Voice

By Marilyn Chase | May 4, 2020

The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research

By Kristen Millares Young | May 4, 2020

Cassandra Austen: Literary Arsonist, or a Heroine in Her Own Right?

By Gill Hornby | May 1, 2020

How Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag Looked at Photos<br> of Violence

How Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag Looked at Photos
of Violence

On Photography and Complicity

By Pepper Stetler | May 1, 2020

A History of Gaps: Who Can Tell the Story of the Vietnamese Diaspora?

A History of Gaps: Who Can Tell the Story of the Vietnamese Diaspora?

Kim-Anh Schreiber on Inhabiting a Territory Defined by Loss

By Kim-Anh Schreiber | April 30, 2020

The Saint and I: On Augustine and Writing About Mothers

The Saint and I: On Augustine and Writing About Mothers

Natalie Carnes on What the Confessions Got Wrong

By Natalie Carnes | April 28, 2020

On Frances Burney and the Birth of 'Chick Lit'

On Frances Burney and the Birth of 'Chick Lit'

A Groundbreaking Storytelling Formula Since the 18th Century

By Gina Fattore | April 27, 2020

Why Are We Obsessed With Writers' Houses?

Why Are We Obsessed With Writers' Houses?

Elisa Wouk Almino on an Age-Old Fascination

By Elisa Wouk Almino | April 27, 2020

Syria's Doomed Struggle for Independence After WWI

Syria's Doomed Struggle for Independence After WWI

Elizabeth F. Thompson on a Diplomatic Ruse That Transformed the Middle East

By Elizabeth F. Thompson | April 24, 2020

On the Rise and Fall of ISIS

On the Rise and Fall of ISIS

Patrick Cockburn Wonders at What Comes Next

By Patrick Cockburn | April 24, 2020

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