• Biography

    Artists

    When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis

    Christopher C. Gorham on Art Theft and Artistic Solidarity in Occupied France

     
    By Christopher C. Gorham  September 29, 2025
    Sports History

    When Bruce Lee Trained With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    By Jeff Chang  September 25, 2025
    writers

    Behind the Fame (and Inspirations) of Muriel Spark

    By Frances Wilson  September 23, 2025
    Artists

    Painting Outside the Lines: On the Life and Work of Abstract Artist Emily Mason

    By Elisa Wouk Almino  September 17, 2025
    Jane Austen

    Why We’re Still Reading Jane Austen on Her 250th Birthday

    By Lucy Worsley  September 16, 2025
    Women Writers

    Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

    By Christine Estima  September 12, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Singer Songwriters

    Getting to Know the Great John Prine

    By Tom Piazza  September 12, 2025
    Memoir

    Miriam Toews on Grief, Guilt, and Memory

    By Miriam Toews  September 3, 2025
    Rereadings

    Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—Plum Bun

    By Glory Edim  August 27, 2025
    Biography

    Are We Entering a New Golden Age of Biography?

    Megan Marshall on a Trio of Blockbuster Books About Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, and Peter Matthiessen

    By Megan Marshall  September 25, 2025
    In Conversation

    Through the Lens of Love: Nicholas Boggs on His New Biography of James Baldwin

    By Literary Hub  August 25, 2025
    Rereadings

    Sheila Heti on the Profound Influence of Jane Bowles on Her Writing—and Life

    By Sheila Heti  August 25, 2025
    Sci-Fi

    Exploring Octavia Butler’s Beginnings as a Sci-Fi Trailblazer

    By Susana M. Morris  August 19, 2025
    News and Culture

    Akwaeke Emezi on the Beauty
    of Nothing

    “The beauty is that it will all end, and that is the most terrible beauty of all.”

    By Akwaeke Emezi  August 18, 2025
    Publishing

    Why the Supreme Court Shouldn’t Make Millions From Publishing Books

    By Maris Kreizman  August 14, 2025
    Literary Criticism

    The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

    By Nathan Kernan  August 14, 2025
    Greek Literature

    Constantine Cavafy: The Making of a Poet

    By Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys  August 12, 2025
    Women Writers

    How Charlotte Brontë’s Shyness Helped Make Her a Storyteller

    Graham Watson Explores the Influence of Friendship and Community on the Author of "Jane Eyre"

    By Graham Watson  August 11, 2025
    Jane Austen

    What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

    By Kathryn Sutherland  August 4, 2025
    Palestine

    On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide

    By Emily Van Duyne  July 24, 2025
    Travel

    Black authors’ houses are historically hard to preserve. Here’s why (plus, a few to visit).

    By Brittany Allen  July 15, 2025
    In Memoriam

    Dear Fanny, Don’t Worry, I Know You’re Dead

    Ezra Fox on Working With Fanny Howe on Her Last Book

    By Ezra Fox  July 14, 2025
    Forgotten Classics

    The Politics of Care and Resistance in the Work of a Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner

    By Deborah Williams  July 14, 2025
    In Memoriam

    Edmund White: Remembering a Doyen of LGBTQ+ Literature and His Mentorship

    By Michael T. Luongo  July 11, 2025
    Wildfires

    Our Good Season is Your Catastrophe: On Life as a Wildland Firefighter

    By River Selby  August 25, 2025
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