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The Investigation Truman Capote Started, But Never Finished, on Russian Socialites

The Investigation Truman Capote Started, But Never Finished, on Russian Socialites

Sophia Leonard on a Draft that Never Saw the Light of Day

By Sophia Leonard | February 7, 2020

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

Sam Wasson on the Creation of a City's Mythology

By Sam Wasson | February 7, 2020

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

On Jenn Shapland and "Hunting Lesbians"

By Catie Disabato | February 7, 2020

How Nazism's Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

How Nazism's Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

On the Growing Tide of Racial Animosity in 1930s Los Angeles

By Donna Rifkind | February 7, 2020

Day Four at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Polish Problem

Day Four at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Polish Problem

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later

By Diana Preston | February 7, 2020

Even the Founding Fathers Couldn't Envision a President Like Trump

Even the Founding Fathers Couldn't Envision a President Like Trump

Liesl Schillinger on Alexander Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the Power of the Presidency

By Liesl Schillinger | February 6, 2020

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Day Three at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: 'The Whole Palace Was Bugged!'

By Diana Preston | February 6, 2020

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Julian Bond Unified the Language of Black and Queer Civil Rights

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Googling Literary Lesbians: <br>On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

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Sarah Heying Asks "The Sappho Question"

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Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

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A Brief History of Literary Seduction

By Clement Knox | February 4, 2020

The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

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The (Mostly Unknowable) Life of a Fraud

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What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

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Varlam Shamalov Served 15 Years in a Soviet Labor Camp

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