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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

By David Stromberg | November 16, 2023

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

How American Critics Originated Jane Austen Scholarship

How American Critics Originated Jane Austen Scholarship

On the Birth of Austen Criticism

By Juliette Wells | November 6, 2023

Everything You Need to Know About Groundbreaking Queer Feminist Science Fiction Writer Joanna Russ

Everything You Need to Know About Groundbreaking Queer Feminist Science Fiction Writer Joanna Russ

Jon Michaud Talks to Nicole Rudick About "One of the Fiercest Critics Ever to Write About Science Fiction"

By Jon Michaud | November 3, 2023

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How a 17th Century Priest Invented the Russian Novel

By Irina Zhorov | November 1, 2023

Spying is Lying: How David Cornwell Became John Le Carré

By Adam Sisman | October 30, 2023

The Transcendental Genius of George Balanchine’s Ballet

By Jennifer Homans | October 27, 2023

How W.H. Auden Made Austria His Adopted Home

How W.H. Auden Made Austria His Adopted Home

Michael O'Sullivan Follows the Famed British-American Poet Across Europe

By Michael O’Sullivan | October 19, 2023

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing and Parenting with Her Husband, Charles

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing and Parenting with Her Husband, Charles

“All this is completely contingent upon the fact that we brought up the kids together.”

By Arwen Curry | October 18, 2023

Hilary Mantel Loved Newspapers and Other Insights From Her Longtime Editor

Hilary Mantel Loved Newspapers and Other Insights From Her Longtime Editor

Nicholas Pearson on a Writer At the Peak of Her Powers

By Nicholas Pearson | October 18, 2023

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Writing Process

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Writing Process

“I am not one of those writers that hates writing.”

By Arwen Curry | October 11, 2023

The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

From Patrick Weil's Cundill Prize-Nominated The Madman in the White House

By Patrick Weil | October 9, 2023

Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

"If I do my job well, it will ring true."

By Anne Eekhout | October 5, 2023

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Characters of Color

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Characters of Color

“Most of the fantasies I read as a child, all the good guys were white.”

By Arwen Curry | October 4, 2023

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