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

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

Roberta Flack, Charles Fox, and Lori Lieberman Discuss the Genesis of an Iconic Song

By Marc Myers | December 14, 2022

How Paul McCartney Dispelled the Myth of His Own Death

How Paul McCartney Dispelled the Myth of His Own Death

Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair on One Beatle’s Reaction to the Band’s Impending Breakup

By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair | December 13, 2022

How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Into the Mythical “G-Men”

How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Into the Mythical “G-Men”

On the PR Campaign That Changed the Modern FBI

By Beverly Gage | December 12, 2022

What to Read Before and After <em>The Adventures of Saul Bellow</em>

What to Read Before and After The Adventures of Saul Bellow

Readings on the Life and Works of a Literary Icon

By Literary Hub | December 9, 2022

How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

Bob Blaisdell on Chronicling the Literary and Personal Life of One of Russia’s Most Prolific Writers

By Bob Blaisdell | December 9, 2022

How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

“When I discovered Butler’s work, I discovered myself.”

By Jesmyn Ward | December 7, 2022

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“Please Pretend That I am Dead.” Darcey Steinke on the Long, Complicated Life of Painter Agnes Martin

By Darcey Steinke | December 7, 2022

Scientific, Sexual and Sentimental: What Frida Kahlo Saw in the Orchid

By Erica Hannickel | December 6, 2022

What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

By Keen On | December 2, 2022

Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos on the Suspicious Timing of a Widowing and a Wedding

By Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos | December 1, 2022

Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

Stacy Schiff In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | December 1, 2022

Amusing, Disturbing, Delightful: Celebrating Jean Stafford

Amusing, Disturbing, Delightful: Celebrating Jean Stafford

Mary Gordon on an Under-Appreciated Author

By Mary Gordon | November 30, 2022

When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

Bob Blaisdell in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 29, 2022

Tracing Bong Joon Ho’s Rise to Fame, from Secret Government Blacklist to Making Oscars History

Tracing Bong Joon Ho’s Rise to Fame, from Secret Government Blacklist to Making Oscars History

Karen Han on the Films That Made a (Cheeky) Star

By Karen Han | November 28, 2022

Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

“The most magnificent funeral of the century.”

By Paul Lafargue | November 28, 2022

How Virginia Woolf Shunned—and Then Embraced—T.S. Eliot

How Virginia Woolf Shunned—and Then Embraced—T.S. Eliot

Lyndall Gordon on the Rocky Beginnings of a Literary Friendship

By Lyndall Gordon | November 23, 2022

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