• Biography

    Art History

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

    By Adam Greenhalgh  February 7, 2024
    Forgotten Classics

    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
    Music Writing

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

    By Nadirah Simmons  February 2, 2024
    Writers in Conversation

    Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

    By Amanda Chemeche  February 1, 2024
    The Writing Life

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

    By Rachel Gordan  January 29, 2024
    Postcolonialism

    The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

    By Adam Shatz  January 25, 2024
    Reckonings

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

    By Danell Jones  January 25, 2024
    Totalitarianism

    Why We Should All Read
    Hannah Arendt Now

    By Lyndsey Stonebridge  January 18, 2024
    Autofiction

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

    By Bécquer Seguín  January 10, 2024
    Anthropocene

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

    By Sukhada Tatke  December 20, 2023
    Trailblazers

    Fierce, Fearless and Fun: How Maggie Higgins Broke New Ground For Women in Journalism

    By Jennet Conant  December 15, 2023
    Manuscripts

    “Is That a First Edition of The Iliad?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

    By Christopher de Hamel  November 30, 2023
    Excerpt

    Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

    By Michel Faber  November 29, 2023
    Literary History

    When Publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald is the Family Business

    By Charles Scribner III  November 28, 2023
    Mexican Literature

    Gabriel García Márquez on the Magic of Juan Rulfo

    By Gabriel García Márquez  November 27, 2023
    Kurt Vonnegut

    Visiting Vonnegut’s Indianapolis

    By Taylor Dorrell  November 22, 2023
    What to Watch

    Maestro Slips into Easy Conversation with A Star is Born

    By Frank Falisi  November 22, 2023
    What to Watch

    On the Jealous Rivalry Between Nicolas Cage and His Uncle, Francis Ford Coppola

    By Zach Schonfeld  November 20, 2023
    What to Watch

    How the Publicity Campaign for Killers of the Flower Moon Recalls Rosebud Yellow Robe’s 1950 Hollywood Tour

    By Paul Morton  November 20, 2023
    Design

    The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

    By Robert von Goeben  November 20, 2023
    Craft

    Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters

    By Benjamin Moser  November 20, 2023
    Black Feminism

    How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art

    By Courtney Thorsson  November 17, 2023
    Legacies

    What Stig Dagerman’s Typewriter Meant to Him, His Descendants, and His Fans

    By Diego Courchay  November 16, 2023
    Jewish Literature

    How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

    By David Stromberg  November 16, 2023
    American Literature

    Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

    By Benjamin Taylor  November 15, 2023
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