• Biography

    The History of Literature

    On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Slaughterhouse Five

    By History of Literature  December 6, 2021
    First Draft

    EJ Levy on the Complicated Life of James Miranda Barry

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 30, 2021
    Literary History

    Francine Prose on Her Encounters with the Literary Strange

    By Francine Prose  November 29, 2021
    #MeToo

    The Last Essay I Need to Write about David Foster Wallace

    By Mary K. Holland  November 29, 2021
    Book Dreams

    On the Life of Belle da Costa Greene, Visionary Librarian and Democratizer of Museums

    By Book Dreams  November 29, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On Eliza Haywood’s Explorations of Gender Politics and Sexual Passion

    By History of Literature  November 29, 2021
    Civil Rights

    We Shall Overcome: John Lewis on the Symbolism of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Urgency of the Civil Rights Movement

    By John Lewis  November 24, 2021
    Journalism

    Revisiting Hunter S. Thompson’s Weird, Brief Stint as a Local Sports Editor

    By David S. Wills  November 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Nearly 200 video interviews with ACT UP New York members are now available online.

    By Walker Caplan  November 22, 2021
    Latin American Literature

    The Life and Times of Iconic Cuban Novelist José Lezama Lima

    By Gabriel Pasquini  November 22, 2021
    Film

    A Fan’s Notes: The Kurt Vonnegut Documentary 40 Years in the Making

    By Jonny Diamond  November 19, 2021
    The Hub

    EXCLUSIVE: Watch Kurt Vonnegut Recall Entering Dresden as a POW

    By Jonny Diamond  November 18, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Kati Marton on the Transformative Power of Angela Merkel

    By Just the Right Book   November 18, 2021
    Keen On

    Kevin Birmingham on How Dostoevsky Came to Write Crime and Punishment

    By Keen On  November 18, 2021
    Artists

    How Picasso Built the Foundation for the Surrealist Movement

    By John Richardson  November 17, 2021
    Great Authors

    How Elizabeth Hardwick Spent Her “Starving Artist” Years in the Big City

    By Cathy Curtis  November 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Dostoevsky totally did NaNoWriMo.

    By Walker Caplan  November 12, 2021
    Westerns

    The True Story of Pearl Hart, Straight-Shooting, Poetry-Writing Woman Bandit

    By John Boessenecker  November 11, 2021
    Philosophy

    On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

    By Robert Meagher  November 10, 2021
    Music history

    The Legendary Meeting of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

    By Bob Spitz  November 9, 2021
    Biography

    On the Humble Childhood Beginnings of H.G. Wells

    By Claire Tomalin  November 8, 2021
    Artists

    On Unjustly Forgotten American Abstract Artist Alice Trumbull Mason

    By Meghan Forbes  November 4, 2021
    The Holocaust

    “Was It I Who Came Back Home?” On the Return of Catherine Dior and Other Survivors of Ravensbrück

    By Justine Picardie  November 4, 2021
    Marriage

    Marriage Story: On the Volatile Relationship Between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway

    By Judith Mackrell  November 3, 2021
    Literary History

    The Literary Adventures of Polly Adler, the Algonquin Round Table’s Favorite Madam

    By Debby Applegate  November 2, 2021
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