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How Bayard Rustin Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nonviolent Activism

How Bayard Rustin Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nonviolent Activism

Jonathan Eig on the Early Civil Rights Movement and the Making of "Alabama's Gandhi"

By Jonathan Eig | September 25, 2023

How America's Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

How America's Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

Tiya Miles on the Creative and Political Power of the Great Outdoors

By Tiya Miles | September 21, 2023

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Fantasy as a Young Girl

WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Fantasy as a Young Girl

“I was free in a way that I think it’s always been rare for a child to be free.”

By Arwen Curry | September 20, 2023

Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

Tracy Daugherty on the Chronicler of the American West

By Tracy Daugherty | September 18, 2023

First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

Loren Grush on the Media Circus Surrounding America's First Women Astronauts

By Loren Grush | September 14, 2023

Did J.D. Salinger Wield Copyright as Self-Protection?

Did J.D. Salinger Wield Copyright as Self-Protection?

"Copyright protections can stop a work from being copied, pirated, poached. They can't stop it from being misunderstood."

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 30, 2023

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Remembering William Stafford, Whose Poetic Region Was All the World

By Steve Paul | August 28, 2023

Leonora Carrington's Days as a Debutante and Art Student

By Joanna Moorhead | August 22, 2023

"Woman, Jew, Intellectual:" How the Nazi State Saw Hannah Arendt

By Wolfram Eilenberger | August 10, 2023

How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress's Life Forever

How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress's Life Forever

Janet Wallach on the Making of Socialite and Spy Marguerite Harrison

By Janet Wallach | August 7, 2023

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

Christopher Cameron on the Complex Relationship Between Black Americans and the Black Church

By Christopher Cameron | July 27, 2023

Excavating Dora Maar: On the Afterlives of Art History's Forgotten Women

Excavating Dora Maar: On the Afterlives of Art History's Forgotten Women

Anne Boyd Rioux Considers How We Tell the Stories of Picasso’s Mistresses

By Anne Boyd Rioux | July 26, 2023

Poe vs. Himself: On the Writer’s One-Sided War with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poe vs. Himself: On the Writer’s One-Sided War with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Anne Whitehouse Tells the Story of the Little Longfellow War

By Anne Whitehouse | July 24, 2023

Art For Everybody: Ann Magnuson on Her Friend, Keith Haring

Art For Everybody: Ann Magnuson on Her Friend, Keith Haring

“Even if you didn’t think you could do something, he believed you could, and then you did.”

By Ann Magnuson | July 20, 2023

Mikki Kendall Remembers the Indelible Work and Full Complexity of bell hooks

Mikki Kendall Remembers the Indelible Work and Full Complexity of bell hooks

“Creating for more than the white gaze or the male gaze was the goal.”

By Mikki Kendall | July 20, 2023

Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language

Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language

Andrew Leland on His Own Weakening Vision, Braille, and Making a Commitment to Read with Visual Aids

By Andrew Leland | July 18, 2023

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