“What Excuse Do I Have for Having Written Nothing Yet Today? None.” Glimpses Into Kafka’s Workshop

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Ross Benjamin on Translating Franz Kafka’s Diaries

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That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

“With me an unfinished thing is a thing that might as well be rubbed out.”

By Matthew Hollis | January 9, 2023

Nothing is Real: Craig Brown on the Slippery Art of Biography

Nothing is Real: Craig Brown on the Slippery Art of Biography

“Biography as a form is necessarily artificial. In the end, all biography is a form of fiction.”

By Craig Brown | January 8, 2023

What to Read Before and After Seeing <em>James Baldwin Abroad</em>

What to Read Before and After Seeing James Baldwin Abroad

Readings on the Life, Works, and Preoccupations of an American Icon

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From Florentine Orphan to French Princess: The Early Years of Catherine de Medici

From Florentine Orphan to French Princess: The Early Years of Catherine de Medici

Estelle Paranque on a Tumultuous Childhood and a High-Stakes Betrothal

By Estelle Paranque | December 22, 2022

“I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

“I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

Aram Mrjoian Remembers the Author of In Everything I See Your Hand

By Aram Mrjoian | December 22, 2022

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How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

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Nino Strachey on the Revolutionary Found Family of the Bloomsbury Group

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Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart

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“The Song Found Me.” An Oral History of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly”

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How Paul McCartney Dispelled the Myth of His Own Death

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