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Biography

Psychogeography

Wandering The Wirral: On the Literary Influence of Malcolm Lowry’s Childhood Landscape

Adam Scovell Revisits the Land Across the Mersey

 
By Adam Scovell  August 5, 2022
In Memoriam

Remembering Daphne Athas: Writer, Reader, Teacher, Mentor, Adventurer, Friend

By Literary Hub  July 28, 2022
World War II

On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

By Jerry W. Carlson  July 27, 2022
Women Writers

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

By Hilary A. Hallett  July 26, 2022
Folksingers

Where’s the Respect for Ani DiFranco?

By Elisa Albert  July 25, 2022
Film History

Reckoning with the Memory of Jonas Mekas, Godfather of Avant-Garde Cinema

By Peter Delpeut  July 22, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
American Classics

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

By Ash Davidson  July 19, 2022
Modern Art

Lost in Translation: When the United States Met Pablo Picasso

By Hugh Eakin  July 14, 2022
Nazis

How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

By Damien Lewis  July 13, 2022
Art History

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

Mark Braude on the Dueling Artistic Passions of Man Ray and a Muse With a Mind of Her Own

By Mark Braude  August 4, 2022
Egyptian Literature

Reading Mahfouz: Egyptian Literature Between Old and New, Freedom and Censorship

By Mohamed Shoair  July 6, 2022
Literary Icons

California State of Mind: Searching for Didion and Babitz in Literary Los Angeles

By Marianne Eloise  July 5, 2022
European History

“With Laughing Cheer, As Is Her Custom.” On the Laughing Queens of Early Modern Europe

By Joy Wiltenburg  July 5, 2022
Libraries

How Fiction Helps Bring History’s Extraordinary Yet Forgotten Women To Life

Alexandra Lapierre on Immersing Herself in the Life of Belle da Costa Greene

By Alexandra Lapierre  June 30, 2022
Coming out

Why 1997 Was a Pivotal Year in the Life of George Michael

By James Gavin  June 29, 2022
Russian Literature

The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

By Bryan Karetnyk  June 27, 2022
Friendship

How One of America’s Most Influential Black Writers Befriended a Pioneering American Aviator

By Gene Andrew Jarrett  June 27, 2022
Indigenous History

The Early Life of the Renowned Leader of the Lakotas, Sitting Bull

Mark Lee Gardner on Sitting Bull's Transformation into a Young Peacemaker

By Mark Lee Gardner  June 24, 2022
In Memoriam

David Grossman Remembers His Friend, the Novelist AB Yehoshua

By David Grossman  June 23, 2022
World War II

“Will There Be War in the Morning?” Inside the Home of Italy’s Foreign Minister, August, 1939

By Tilar J. Mazzeo  June 21, 2022
Civil Rights

On Civil Rights Activist Curtis Graves’ Groundbreaking Electoral Campaign

By Nick Seabrook  June 16, 2022
Photography

What Sally Mann’s Work Says About Art and Motherhood

Whitney Otto on the Legacy of a Groundbreaking American Photographer

By Whitney Otto  June 15, 2022
Photography

How Eudora Welty Captured 1930s New York City on Film

By Annette Trefzer  June 15, 2022
Physics

How Peter Higgs Came to Abhor of Nuclear Weapons—and Find Hope in Particle Physics

By Frank Close  June 15, 2022
Fathers and Daughters

Katherine Angel on Valerie Solanas, Bad Dads, and the Literary Pleasures of Pure Rage

By Katherine Angel  July 7, 2022
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