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“A Nation of Lunatics.” What Oscar Wilde Thought About America

“A Nation of Lunatics.” What Oscar Wilde Thought About America

Rob Marland on the Irish Writer’s Grand Tour of the Gilded Age United States

By Rob Marland | March 11, 2024

Double Vision: How the McLaughlin Sisters Took the Photography World By Storm

Double Vision: How the McLaughlin Sisters Took the Photography World By Storm

Carol Kino on On Our Enduring Cultural Fascination With Twins

By Carol Kino | March 8, 2024

The Icon and the Upstart: On Miles Davis’s Legendary Feud With Wynton Marsalis

The Icon and the Upstart: On Miles Davis’s Legendary Feud With Wynton Marsalis

James Kaplan Remembers One of Jazz’s Great Generational Battles

By James Kaplan | March 6, 2024

Kalpana Raina on Translating Her Uncle Hari Krishna Kaul’s Stories of Kashmir

Kalpana Raina on Translating Her Uncle Hari Krishna Kaul’s Stories of Kashmir

“There are no grand themes in Kaul’s work, but an exploration and ultimately an acceptance of human limitations.”

By Kalpana Raina | March 6, 2024

Revisiting the Radical Presence of Diane di Prima

Revisiting the Radical Presence of Diane di Prima

Liesl Schwabe on the Work and Legacy of the San Francisco Beat Poet

By Liesl Schwabe | March 4, 2024

Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers

Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers

Mary V. Dearborn Remembers an American Literary Champion of the Outsider

By Mary V. Dearborn | February 28, 2024

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Who Made Who? On the Creative Collaboration of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse

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Mark Braude Considers the Blurred Lines Between Object and Participant, Artist and Muse

By Mark Braude | February 9, 2024

Between Risk and Control: How Mark Rothko Discovered His Signature Style

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Adam Greenhalgh on the American Abstract Painter's Early Years

By Adam Greenhalgh | February 7, 2024

Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

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Erik Wood Considers His Uncle’s “Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes”

By Erik Wood | February 5, 2024

The Tremendous Power and Lasting Impact of <em>The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill</em>

The Tremendous Power and Lasting Impact of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Nadirah Simmons Proposes Some Additional Awards for the Highly Decorated Album

By Nadirah Simmons | February 2, 2024

Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

Amanda Chemeche Talks to the Author of “Don’t Call Me Home”

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