• Biography

    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

    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

    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
    Letters

    “Every night we hear the coyotes howl.” Read Letters from Ernest Hemingway to His Son

    By Ernest Hemingway and Patrick Hemingway  June 14, 2022
    Literary History

    “I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure.” When James Baldwin Went to Fire Island

    By Jack Parlett  June 14, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Writing an Autobiography Is More Like Recording an Album Than Making a Single

    By Keen On  June 14, 2022
    Overlooked Women

    Ada Calhoun on Ouida, The Most Famous Lady Novelist You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Ada Calhoun  June 13, 2022
    Humorists

    Art Buchwald in Paris: Fan Letters from Steinbeck, and an Invite to the Most Famous Wedding in the World

    By Michael Hill  June 13, 2022
    Summer reading

    29 Works of Nonfiction You Need to Read This Summer

    By Emily Temple  June 8, 2022
    Literary History

    James Patterson Remembers the Time James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

    By James Patterson  June 8, 2022
    Film History

    When Rob Reiner’s Alter Ego (Harry) Met Nora Ephron’s Alter Ego (Sally)

    By Kristin Marguerite Doidge  June 8, 2022
    Poets

    Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

    By Jen DeGregorio  June 6, 2022
    Keen On

    How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

    By Keen On  June 2, 2022
    White Supremacy

    How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

    By Philip Dray  June 2, 2022
    Film

    Why Sofia Coppola Wanted to Make the (Admittedly Obnoxious) Bling Ring

    By Hannah Strong  June 1, 2022
    Shakespeare

    What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

    By Michael Blanding  May 31, 2022
    Film History

    When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever

    By Michelle Morgan  May 27, 2022
    Italian Literature

    How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected

    By Marco Belpoliti and Clarissa Botsford  May 26, 2022
    The Renaissance

    How Leonardo Da Vinci Became the Ultimate Renaissance Man

    By Eden Collinsworth  May 24, 2022
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