• Biography

    Celebrity

    The Making of a Muse: When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol

    By Alice Sedgwick Wohl  August 19, 2022
    Music

    When Rick James Fought to Get Black Artists on MTV

    By Ramon Hervey II  August 19, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Why Her Intensely Complicated and Complex Life Made Colette a Great Writer

    By Book Dreams  August 18, 2022
    Ursa

    The Life and Stories of Diane Oliver

    By Ursa   August 17, 2022
    Queer History

    Radical Lesbians and Active Desire: On Rita Mae Brown and the Lesbian Political Movement

    By Nona Willis Aronowitz  August 11, 2022
    Pets

    Meet Laddie Boy: The First Celebrity Presidential Pet

    By Andrew Hager  August 10, 2022
    War Reporting

    Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

    By Christina Lamb  August 9, 2022
    In Memoriam

    Fresh Updates on the Dead: On Jerry Garcia’s Current Status in the Spirit Realm

    By Joey Sweeney  August 9, 2022
    Rock N Roll

    How CCR, “The Boy Scouts of Rock and Roll,” Took California and the Country by Storm

    By John Lingan  August 9, 2022
    Psychogeography

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

    By Adam Scovell  August 5, 2022
    Art History

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

    By Mark Braude  August 4, 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
    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
    Fathers and Daughters

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

    By Katherine Angel  July 7, 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

    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
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