• Biography

    Black History

    Existence as Resistance: How Josephine Baker Challenged Misogynoir

    By Terri Simone Francis  March 12, 2021
    The Writing Life

    After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

    By Josephine Rowe  March 11, 2021
    Black History

    A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

    By Harmony Holiday  March 11, 2021
    Literary History

    How Kurt Wolff Transformed Pantheon into a 20th-Century Publishing Powerhouse

    By Alexander Wolff  March 10, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s the literary Twitter bot that’s helped me survive lockdown.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 9, 2021
    Philosophy

    Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

    By Robert Zaretsky  March 9, 2021
    Domesticity

    Home is a Living Sketchbook: Inside the Artistic Design of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

    By Melissa Wyse  March 4, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Red Comet by Heather Clark

    By Tara Wanda Merrigan  March 3, 2021
    The Hub

    D.H. Lawrence was the king of innuendo—but wouldn’t admit it.

    By Walker Caplan  March 2, 2021
    Spirituality

    How Leonora Carrington Used Tarot to Reach Self-Enlightenment

    By Gabriel Weisz Carrington  March 2, 2021
    Civil Rights

    The Story of Pan Am’s First
    Black Stewardesses

    By Julia Cooke  March 2, 2021
    Film

    (Almost) Every Cultural Reference in Pretend It’s a City, Annotated

    By Annie Berke  March 1, 2021
    Women's History

    A Brief History of Women Street Photographers

    By Melissa Breyer  March 1, 2021
    Jewish American Authors

    A Star is Born: Tracing the Rise and Fall of a Jewish Immigrant Turned Realist Author

    By Catherine Rottenberg  February 26, 2021
    The Hub

    When Tennessee Williams was 16, he won a writing contest by pretending to be a disgruntled divorcee.

    By Walker Caplan  February 25, 2021
    Theater

    On the Erudite Chaos of Tom Stoppard’s Most Complex Play

    By Hermione Lee  February 24, 2021
    The Hub

    A PBS episode about Flannery O’Connor will feature interviews with Hilton Als and Mary Karr.

    By Walker Caplan  February 23, 2021
    Journalism

    Meet the Three Women Who Changed the Face of War Reportage

    By Elizabeth Becker  February 23, 2021
    The Hub

    A library staffer has been fired for burning Trump and Ann Coulter books in his free time.

    By Walker Caplan  February 17, 2021
    American Presidents

    Lessons in Self-Invention and Reinvention from
    Theodore Roosevelt

    By Michael Patrick F. Smith  February 17, 2021
    The Hub

    A few of the things Thomas Bernhard hated most about all the literary prizes he won.

    By Walker Caplan  February 12, 2021
    American Presidents

    To Unify a Divided (New) Nation: The Early Days of George Washington’s Presidency

    By David O. Stewart  February 11, 2021
    Women Making History

    The Woman Who Ran for President Before Women
    Could Vote

    By Mira Ptacin  February 10, 2021
    Sports History

    How James Thomas “Cool Papa” Bell Became a Negro League Superstar

    By Lonnie Wheeler  February 10, 2021
    American History

    Gossip, Deceit, and Heartbreak in 19th-Century New England

    By Christine Leigh Heyrman  February 10, 2021
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