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“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“Being Baldwin requires you to be free. It’s mandatory.”

By Dan Sheehan | February 21, 2024

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Kirsten Bakis Explores the Lives of Writer and Paranormalist Cult Figure Charles Fort and His Wife, Anna

By Kirsten Bakis | February 21, 2024

How <em>The Prophet</em> Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

How The Prophet Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

The Late Joan Acocella on the Complex and Contradictory Life of a New Age Icon

By Joan Acocella | February 20, 2024

The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday’s Last Live Performance

The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday’s Last Live Performance

Paul Alexander Chronicles the Final Months of America’s Queen of Jazz

By Paul Alexander | February 19, 2024

In a Memoriam: A Poem by Anthony Brian Smith

In a Memoriam: A Poem by Anthony Brian Smith

Remembering a Writer Gone Too Soon

By Anthony Brian Smith | February 16, 2024

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

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

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

By Mark Braude | February 9, 2024

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

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

By Erik Wood | February 5, 2024

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

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”

By Amanda Chemeche | February 1, 2024

Collaboration, Not Competition: How Betty Smith Helped Her Fellow Writers

Collaboration, Not Competition: How Betty Smith Helped Her Fellow Writers

Rachel Gordan on the Epistolary Relationships Maintained by the Author of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

By Rachel Gordan | January 29, 2024

The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

Adam Shatz on the Life and Legacy of a Great Post-Colonialism Thinker

By Adam Shatz | January 25, 2024

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

Danell Jones Grapples With a Beloved Author’s Casual Racism

By Danell Jones | January 25, 2024

Why We Should All Read <br>Hannah Arendt Now

Why We Should All Read
Hannah Arendt Now

Lyndsey Stonebridge on “The Origins of Totalitarianism” and the Failure of Democracy

By Lyndsey Stonebridge | January 18, 2024

Autofiction Without the Auto: On Javier Cercas’ Outward-Looking, Self-Centered Fiction

Autofiction Without the Auto: On Javier Cercas’ Outward-Looking, Self-Centered Fiction

Bécquer Seguín Considers the Emergence of a New Type of Literature in Post-Franco Spain

By Bécquer Seguín | January 10, 2024

Between Anxiety and Hope: On the Cautious Optimism of Lewis Thomas

Between Anxiety and Hope: On the Cautious Optimism of Lewis Thomas

Sukhada Tatke Remembers the Essayist and His Scientific and Creative Vision

By Sukhada Tatke | December 20, 2023

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