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How Edith Wharton's Novel of New York High Society Speaks to Class Divisions Today

How Edith Wharton's Novel of New York High Society Speaks to Class Divisions Today

Jennifer Egan on The House of Mirth

By Jennifer Egan | January 14, 2020

My Novel Centered on the Eliot-Hale Letters. Now, We Can Read Them

My Novel Centered on the Eliot-Hale Letters. Now, We Can Read Them

Martha Cooley on a Decades-Old Mystery

By Martha Cooley | January 14, 2020

Life at the End of American Empire

Life at the End of American Empire

Richard Lachmann on the Slow Decline of a Superpower

By Richard Lachmann | January 14, 2020

J.M. Barrie's Handwritten Manuscript of <em>Peter Pan</em>

J.M. Barrie's Handwritten Manuscript of Peter Pan

Another Trip Back to Neverland

By Literary Hub | January 13, 2020

At Nancy Mitford's Grave, Where Romanticism Meets Reality

At Nancy Mitford's Grave, Where Romanticism Meets Reality

Laura Thompson on a Novelist's Dreams of Beauty and Death

By Laura Thompson | January 10, 2020

By Bullet or Ballot: One of the Only Successful Coups in American History

By Bullet or Ballot: One of the Only Successful Coups in American History

David Zucchino on the White Supremacist Plot to Take Over Wilmington, North Carolina

By David Zucchino | January 9, 2020

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On the Short Stories That Inspired a Russian Czar to Free the Serfs

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How the Fiction of Ivan Turgenev Changed Lives

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Irish writer gets into Twitter fight with… the Auschwitz Memorial Museum?

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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

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On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

From Camilla Townsend's Cundill Prize-Nominated Fifth Sun

By Camilla Townsend | December 19, 2019

The Governor's Race That Made George Wallace a Hardline Segregationist

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One Man's Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

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On Gershon Legman, Original Sex-Positive Hipster Intellectual

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