• Biography

    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Walking With Destiny: Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   May 11, 2022
    Forgotten Classics

    Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls

    By Emmeline Clein  May 9, 2022
    Art

    How Sylvia Sleigh’s Nude Male Portraits Subverted the Muse Narrative

    By Ruth Millington  May 9, 2022
    Artists

    Behind the Scenes at Andy Warhol’s First Big Bash in “Vacant, Vacuous Hollywood”

    By Mark Rozzo  May 9, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

    By History of Literature  May 9, 2022
    American Presidents

    How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

    By Julia Sweig  May 6, 2022
    The Hub

    The first major biography of Volodymyr Zelensky in English will be published in July.

    By Corinne Segal  May 4, 2022
    Silicon Valley

    After Steve Jobs, The Flood: Apple Without Its Emblematic and Enigmatic Founder

    By Tripp Mickle  May 4, 2022
    Fashion

    The Untold and Very True Story of The Devil Wears Prada

    By Amy Odell  May 3, 2022
    Chilean Literature

    Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention

    By Alejandro Zambra  May 2, 2022
    African American History

    How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

    By Rosalyn Story  May 2, 2022
    What to Watch

    What Julia—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones

    By Sara B. Franklin  April 27, 2022
    Literary History

    On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

    By Katie Bennett  April 25, 2022
    Graphic Novels

    Illustrating Patricia Highsmith’s Literary Career

    By Grace Ellis and Hannah Temper  April 25, 2022
    Ancient Rome

    How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

    By Richard Cohen  April 22, 2022
    The Royal Family

    How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

    By Robert Leleux  April 22, 2022
    Film History

    Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

    By Paul Fischer  April 22, 2022
    Literary Biopics

    John Keats on Film: Considering Jane Campion’s Exquisitely Rendered Bright Star

    By Lucasta Miller  April 21, 2022
    Literary History

    Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

    By Taylor Brown  April 21, 2022
    Chinese History

    The Chairman Had No Rhythm: What It Meant to Dance with Mao Zedong

    By Vanessa Hua  April 20, 2022
    Cookbooks

    An Inside Look at Judith Jones’ First Notes for Julia Child

    By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz  April 19, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Linda H. Davis on the Literary Fame and Notorious Exploits of Stephen Crane

    By History of Literature  April 18, 2022
    Politics

    How a Founding Father Helped Create Modern American Philanthropy

    By Michael Meyer  April 15, 2022
    Literary History

    Learning from the Work Muriel Rukeyser Left Unfinished

    By Rowena Kennedy-Epstein  April 14, 2022
    The History of Literature

    On the Creative Partnership of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

    By History of Literature  April 11, 2022
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