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“Is That a First Edition of <em>The Iliad</em>?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

“Is That a First Edition of The Iliad?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

On Constantine Simonides, a Mysterious Stranger in the Cotswolds...

By Christopher de Hamel | November 30, 2023

Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

On the Odd Case of the Musical Anhedonic

By Michel Faber | November 29, 2023

When Publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald is the Family Business

When Publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald is the Family Business

Charles Scribner III on Three Generations in the Book Business

By Charles Scribner III | November 28, 2023

Gabriel García Márquez on the Magic of Juan Rulfo

Gabriel García Márquez on the Magic of Juan Rulfo

A Foreword to the Classic Mexican Novel Pedro Páramo

By Gabriel García Márquez | November 27, 2023

Visiting Vonnegut’s Indianapolis

Visiting Vonnegut’s Indianapolis

Taylor Dorrell on the City Where the Legendary Writer Lived (but Was Not Laid to Rest)

By Taylor Dorrell | November 22, 2023

<em>Maestro</em> Slips into Easy Conversation with <em>A Star is Born</em>

Maestro Slips into Easy Conversation with A Star is Born

Frank Falisi on the New Leonard Bernstein Biopic and Its Director-Star Bradley Cooper

By Frank Falisi | November 22, 2023

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Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters

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How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art

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Courtney Thorsson on the Emergence of a Black Feminist Literary Culture in America

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What Stig Dagerman's Typewriter Meant to Him, His Descendants, and His Fans

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Diego Courchay Chronicles the Abbreviated Life of a Swedish Literary Prodigy

By Diego Courchay | November 16, 2023

How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

David Stromberg on the Artistic Vision of the Polish-Born American Nobel Laureate

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Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

Benjamin Taylor on the Early Years of America's Chronicler of the Great Plains

By Benjamin Taylor | November 15, 2023

Kali Fajardo-Anstine in Praise of Willa Cather and the American Southwest

Kali Fajardo-Anstine in Praise of Willa Cather and the American Southwest

On Death Comes for the Archbishop and Literary Neighbors

By Kali Fajardo-Anstine | November 14, 2023

The 400th Anniversary: Look Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio

The 400th Anniversary: Look Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio

A Sneak Peak at Rizzoli and The British Library's Facsimile Edition

By Literary Hub | November 13, 2023

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