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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

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

Mark Whitaker on the Making of a Modern American Revolutionary

By Mark Whitaker | February 13, 2023

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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?

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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

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