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Tom Verlaine was the Strand’s Best Customer

Tom Verlaine was the Strand’s Best Customer

Booksellers Remember the Coolest Celebrity “Cart Shark” of Them All

By Colin Groundwater | February 7, 2023

Who Really Was Margaret Fuller Before Her Sudden Death?

Who Really Was Margaret Fuller Before Her Sudden Death?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | February 6, 2023

Kwame Dawes on <em>The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass</em>

Kwame Dawes on The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Dawes, the great poet and critic, reflects on the legacy of the rhetorician and abolitionist Douglass, in the introduction to a new edition of his monumental autobiography

By Kwame Dawes | February 6, 2023

Ayşegül Savaş on the Work and Career of Turkish Writer Tezer Özlü

Ayşegül Savaş on the Work and Career of Turkish Writer Tezer Özlü

"Her voice was uniquely her own: consciousness distilled into narrative form.”

By Aysegül Savas | February 3, 2023

Kelly Link in Praise of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Genuine Magic

Kelly Link in Praise of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Genuine Magic

“It is striking how resonant Le Guin’s work remains even as the future she describes recedes into our past.”

By Kelly Link | January 31, 2023

How a Leading Voice of Eswatini Culture Was Erased From History

How a Leading Voice of Eswatini Culture Was Erased From History

Joel Cabrita on Regina Gelana Twala and the Legacy of Racism and Sexism in Southern Africa

By Joel Cabrita | January 30, 2023

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Philip Taubman on George P. Shultz’s Un-Trumpian Role in Ending the Cold War

By Keen On | January 30, 2023

“He Was Determined to Make Himself into a Character.” David S. Willis on the Gonzo Journalism of Hunter S. Thompson

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | January 26, 2023

“I Feel Like a Feather Floating in the Atmosphere.” How Thoreau Reckoned with the Loss of His Brother

By Robert D. Richardson | January 25, 2023

“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

Emily J. Orlando on the Writer’s Enduring Relevance and Foresight

By Emily J. Orlando | January 24, 2023

A Modernist’s Modernist: On the Brilliance—and Influence—of Katherine Mansfield

A Modernist’s Modernist: On the Brilliance—and Influence—of Katherine Mansfield

“Thinking about Mansfield’s work makes me understand again how literature is never just a story.”

By Kirsty Gunn | January 23, 2023

<em>Auden and the Muse of History</em> with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

Auden and the Muse of History with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | January 23, 2023

On the Life of George Kennan, Divided Between the United States and the Soviet Union

On the Life of George Kennan, Divided Between the United States and the Soviet Union

Frank Costigliola in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 23, 2023

Why <em>All Creatures Great and Small</em> is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet

Why All Creatures Great and Small is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet

Poised on the Ledge of WWII, the PBS Series Based on James Herriot’s Life Captures the Writer‘s Ethos

By Ethan Warren | January 20, 2023

In Memory of Russell Banks: Rick Moody on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy

In Memory of Russell Banks: Rick Moody on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 19, 2023

The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

Richard Bradford on Political Mythmaking and Self-Delusion

By Richard Bradford | January 17, 2023

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