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Postcards to a Younger, Much Better Novelist

Postcards to a Younger, Much Better Novelist

Derek Palacio Shares Early Correspondence with his wife, Claire Vaye Watkins

By Derek Palacio | October 17, 2016

The Publishing Gamble That Changed America

The Publishing Gamble That Changed America

The Late Barney Rosset on Fighting for Lady Chatterley's Lover

By Barney Rosset | October 13, 2016

By Us, For Us: On New Orleans Bounce

By Us, For Us: On New Orleans Bounce

Where Did the Projects Go? They Found a Home in Song

By Garnette Cadogan | October 12, 2016

The Man Who Lived the Tragic Tale of My Book

The Man Who Lived the Tragic Tale of My Book

Surviving the Armenian Genocide, 100 Years Later, in Vermont

By Dawn MacKeen | October 12, 2016

The Man Who Invented Bookselling As We Know It

The Man Who Invented Bookselling As We Know It

On James Lackington's Temple of the Muses, "The Cheapest Bookstore in the World"

By John Pipkin | October 11, 2016

Picturing Frederick Douglass

Picturing Frederick Douglass

On the Portraits of the Most Photographed Man in the 19th Century

By James Sullivan | October 4, 2016

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So Who Was Jack the Ripper?

By Otto Penzler | October 4, 2016

Finding a Forgotten Book On Surviving the Holocaust

By P.N. Singer | September 30, 2016

When Young Rilke Moved to the Big City and Met Rodin

By Rachel Corbett | September 23, 2016

The Case for White Curiosity

The Case for White Curiosity

Interrogating the Devastating Legacy of White Supremacy in America

By Patrick Phillips | September 22, 2016

The History (and Present) of Banning Books in America

The History (and Present) of Banning Books in America

On the Ongoing Fight Against the Censorship of Ideas

By Amy Brady | September 22, 2016

Fascist, Communist, Writer, Duchess... The Legend of the Mitford Sisters

Fascist, Communist, Writer, Duchess... The Legend of the Mitford Sisters

How a One-of-a-Kind Family Captured a Nation's Imagination

By Laura Thompson | September 21, 2016

Jeanette Winterson on Paris's Great Bookstore, Shakespeare and Company

Jeanette Winterson on Paris's Great Bookstore, Shakespeare and Company

A New History on One of the World's Great Bookshops

By Lit Hub Photography | September 20, 2016

Hitler's Dog, and Other Problems of Historical Fiction

Hitler's Dog, and Other Problems of Historical Fiction

Peter Ho Davies on the challenges (and opportunities) of mining the past

By Peter Ho Davies | September 7, 2016

How Borges Taught Me to Embrace My Jewish Heritage

How Borges Taught Me to Embrace My Jewish Heritage

"Borges was my rabbinical master in a Yeshiva the Size of the Globe"

By Ilan Stavans | September 2, 2016

The Forgotten History of Florence's Mixed-Race Medici

The Forgotten History of Florence's Mixed-Race Medici

On the Double Assassination of a 16th-Century Duke

By Catherine Fletcher | September 2, 2016

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