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An Explorer Frozen in Time and a Map for the Mess of Life

An Explorer Frozen in Time and a Map for the Mess of Life

Reid Mitenbuler on the Drive to Wanderlust and the Neuroticism of the Present

By reidmitenbuler | February 23, 2023

The Battle for the Black Soul: On the Poetic Embodiment of the Black Preacher

The Battle for the Black Soul: On the Poetic Embodiment of the Black Preacher

Gregory Pardlo Contextualizes James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones for the Contemporary Era

By Gregory Pardlo | February 21, 2023

Lynn Cullen on the Woman Who Pioneered the Polio Vaccine and Changed the World

Lynn Cullen on the Woman Who Pioneered the Polio Vaccine and Changed the World

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 17, 2023

How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

On Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and the Birth of Superman

By Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler | February 16, 2023

How One Week in Chicago Changed Abraham Lincoln’s Life—and the Fate of the United States

How One Week in Chicago Changed Abraham Lincoln’s Life—and the Fate of the United States

Edward Achorn on the Miraculous Nomination of an Illinois Lawyer

By Edward Achorn | February 16, 2023

How to Love a Writer: On the Care and Feeding of a Creative Marriage

How to Love a Writer: On the Care and Feeding of a Creative Marriage

Jess deCourcy Hinds Wonders How Literary Couples Make It Work

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | February 14, 2023

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The Coming-of-Age Tale As Societal Critique: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar at 60

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The Lives of the Wives: Carmela Ciuraru on Marriage, Writing, and Equity

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 9, 2023

An Unequal Partnership: On the Marriage of Kingsley Amis and Jane Howard

An Unequal Partnership: On the Marriage of Kingsley Amis and Jane Howard

Carmela Ciuraru Explores What Literary Wives Are Forced to Sacrifice for Their Husbands' Success

By Carmela Ciuraru | February 8, 2023

You, too, can own one of Larry McMurtry’s beloved typewriters!

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How <em>On the Waterfront</em> Made Marlon Brando a Cinematic Icon

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David Thomson on the Rise of an Old Hollywood Leading Man

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Tom Verlaine was the Strand’s Best Customer

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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

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

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