• Biography

    European History

    From Florentine Orphan to French Princess: The Early Years of Catherine de Medici

    By Estelle Paranque  December 22, 2022
    In Memoriam

    “I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

    By Aram Mrjoian  December 22, 2022
    Children's Literature

    Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

    By Hervé Tullet  December 21, 2022
    Poets

    Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

    By Heather Cass White  December 20, 2022
    The Hub

    Charles Dickens partied HARD after finishing A Christmas Carol in just six weeks.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 19, 2022
    Artists

    What a Young, Aspiring John Singer Sargent Learned From the Beauty of Florence

    By Paul Fisher  December 19, 2022
    The Hub

    Thomas Pynchon’s archives have a home (Oedipa Maas and Zipi Pisk can finally relax)

    By Jonny Diamond  December 16, 2022
    Literary History

    How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

    By Nino Strachey  December 15, 2022
    Authors in the Tent

    Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 15, 2022
    2022

    Notable Literary Deaths in 2022

    By Emily Temple  December 14, 2022
    Music Writing

    “The Song Found Me.” An Oral History of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly”

    By Marc Myers  December 14, 2022
    Rock and Roll

    How Paul McCartney Dispelled the Myth of His Own Death

    By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair  December 13, 2022
    Crime

    How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Into the Mythical “G-Men”

    By Beverly Gage  December 12, 2022
    American Literature

    What to Read Before and After The Adventures of Saul Bellow

    By Literary Hub  December 9, 2022
    Russian Literature

    How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

    By Bob Blaisdell  December 9, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

    By Jesmyn Ward  December 7, 2022
    Art and Life

    “Please Pretend That I am Dead.” Darcey Steinke on the Long, Complicated Life of Painter Agnes Martin

    By Darcey Steinke  December 7, 2022
    Artists

    Scientific, Sexual and Sentimental: What Frida Kahlo Saw in the Orchid

    By Erica Hannickel  December 6, 2022
    Keen On

    What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

    By Keen On  December 2, 2022
    Pirates

    Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

    By Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos  December 1, 2022
    Just the Right Book

    Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

    By Just the Right Book   December 1, 2022
    Literary History

    Amusing, Disturbing, Delightful: Celebrating Jean Stafford

    By Mary Gordon  November 30, 2022
    Keen On

    When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

    By Keen On  November 29, 2022
    Film Studies

    Tracing Bong Joon Ho’s Rise to Fame, from Secret Government Blacklist to Making Oscars History

    By Karen Han  November 28, 2022
    Literary History

    Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

    By Paul Lafargue  November 28, 2022
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