• Biography

    Nature Writing

    How the Word “Landscape” Helped Change Americans’ Relationship to Nature

    By Tyler Green  October 7, 2021
    Freeman's

    Nadifa Mohamed on the Long, Strange Journey of Her Uncle Kettle

    By Nadifa Mohamed  October 4, 2021
    News and Culture

    On Constancia de la Mora and the Plight of Writers in Exile

    By Soledad Fox Maura  October 4, 2021
    Open Source

    A Ghost in His Own Life: Colm Tóibín on the Great Thomas Mann

    By Open Source  October 1, 2021
    Rejection

    How to Deal with Rejection (and Get Revenge) Like Edgar Allan Poe

    By Catherine Baab-Muguira  September 30, 2021
    Gardening

    Frances Hodgson Burnett Really Loved Gardens—Even Secret Ones

    By Marta McDowell  September 29, 2021
    Music

    A World Outside Time: Pico Iyer on the Deep Pleasure of Handel’s Chorale Music

    By Pico Iyer  September 29, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2021
    Fascism

    Ezra Pound’s Unrepentant Ties With Fascist Italy

    By Lauren Arrington  September 27, 2021
    Biography

    How Philip Roth Controlled the Narrative of His Own Life

    By Jacques Berlinerblau  September 24, 2021
    Singer Songwriters

    Why Blues Singer Bessie Smith’s Bewitching Narratives Remain Eerily Relevant

    By Jackie Kay  September 23, 2021
    European History

    On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette

    By Nancy Goldstone  September 23, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Napoleon by Ruth Scurr, read by Tanya Cubric

    By Behind the Mic   September 23, 2021
    Parents

    The Miracle of Black Love: On the Greater Meaning of My Parents’ Enduring Marriage

    By Farah Jasmine Griffin  September 23, 2021
    Art

    “Paris is Paris. There is But One.” On Van Gogh’s Painterly Relationship to France

    By Gloria Fossi  September 22, 2021
    Art History

    Meet Berthe Weill, the Groundbreaking Female Art Dealer Who Made a Name for Picasso

    By Charles Dellheim  September 22, 2021
    American Presidents

    On the Difficulty of Remaining Anonymous When You’re the First President of the United States

    By Nathaniel Philbrick  September 20, 2021
    The Holocaust

    Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

    By David Rieff  September 20, 2021
    Art

    On Robert Indiana’s LOVE-Hate Relationship with the Sculpture That Made Him a Star

    By Bob Keyes  September 20, 2021
    Literary History

    “The Voltaire of Central Park West.” On Herman Mankiewicz’s Early Days at the Algonquin Round Table

    By Nick Davis  September 17, 2021
    Keen On

    Peter Baker and Susan Glasser on The Man Who Ran Washington

    By Keen On  September 17, 2021
    The Hub

    “Poetry is telegrams of the human soul”: Watch a rare video interview with Richard Brautigan.

    By Walker Caplan  September 16, 2021
    Literary History

    An Alleged Lock of Emily Dickinson’s Hair is Selling for $450,000…
    But Was it Stolen?

    By Jen DeGregorio  September 16, 2021
    Literary History

    “Her Novels Were Not For Men.” On Suat Derviş, Turkish Novelist

    By Maureen Freely  September 16, 2021
    Fairy Tales

    Is the Original Pinocchio Actually About Lying and Very Long Noses?

    By John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna  September 14, 2021
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