• Biography

    The Hub

    On the time Lewis Carroll was accused of being Jack the Ripper.

    By Walker Caplan  January 27, 2022
    The Hub

    An official biography of Terry Pratchett is coming this fall.

    By Walker Caplan  January 26, 2022
    On Racism

    On the Pioneering Black Female Lawyer Who Took Racism to Court

    By Tomiko Brown-Nagin  January 26, 2022
    The Hub

    Edith Wharton’s groundbreaking Pulitzer was originally meant for Sinclair Lewis.

    By Walker Caplan  January 25, 2022
    The Hub

    Read Arthur Miller’s steamy love letter to Marilyn Monroe.

    By Walker Caplan  January 24, 2022
    Indigenous History

    “Poetry Wedded to Science.” On the Love and Legacy of Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman

    By Julie Dobrow  January 20, 2022
    Literary Friendships

    Charles J. Shields on the Profound and Playful Friendship Between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin

    By Charles J. Shields  January 19, 2022
    Medicine

    Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives

    By Janice P. Nimura  January 19, 2022
    Monarchy

    No Sympathy for Horrid Women: On the History of George V and the Demands of the Suffragettes

    By Jane Ridley  January 7, 2022
    Journalism

    On the Legacy of Hunter S. Thompson and Gonzo Journalism

    By Peter Richardson  January 5, 2022
    Soul

    On the Many Miracles of Aretha Franklin

    By Zandria F. Robinson  January 4, 2022
    Keen On

    Sarah Burns on the Fabulous Life of Perkins Harnly

    By Keen On  December 26, 2021
    Jane Austen

    How Jane Austen Created a Shakespearean World in Pride and Prejudice

    By Harold Bloom  December 23, 2021
    Country Music

    The Politics of Empathy: On the Life and Music of Johnny Cash

    By Michael Stewart Foley  December 21, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Phil Klay on Evelyn Waugh’s Catholic, Conservative, and Curmudgeonly Ways

    By History of Literature  December 20, 2021
    Film History

    “Garbo Talks!” On the 1930 Sound Film That Gave Greta a Voice

    By Robert Gottlieb  December 15, 2021
    Musicians

    To Write a Revolution on the Sky: On the Radical Legacy of Curtis Mayfield

    By Ayana Contreras  December 15, 2021
    Greek Literature

    Excavating the Insights of a Once Beloved Greek Novelist

    By Johanna Hanink  December 15, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    The Urgency of Rachel Carson’s Sea Trilogy in a Time of Climate Crisis

    By Sandra Steingraber  December 14, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Afrodisiac: A Textual Meditation on Greg Tate

    By Michael A. Gonzales  December 14, 2021
    The History of Literature

    From Joni to Dylan: On the Bards of 1960s Pop

    By History of Literature  December 13, 2021
    Poets

    Trying to Write About “The Two John Miltons”

    By Joe Moshenska  December 8, 2021
    Best of the Year

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

    By Book Marks  December 7, 2021
    Photography

    What Propelled Vivian Maier’s Earliest New York Photographs?

    By Ann Marks  December 7, 2021
    Musicians

    “He Wound Up Feeling Like a Close Friend.” On Drawing the Life of Leonard Cohen

    By Literary Hub  December 6, 2021
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