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Biography

Correspondence

Tove Jansson Falls in Love

By Tove Jansson  March 11, 2020
Solitude

Cultivating Solitude,
The Henry James’ Way

By Fenton Johnson  March 10, 2020
Criticism

On Shirley Hazzard and the Antipodean Gaze

By Michelle de Krester  March 9, 2020
Artists

Frida Kahlo Was a Captivating Subject for Photographers

By Celia Stahr  March 5, 2020
Activism

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

By Adam Hochschild  March 5, 2020
Film

How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

By Lonely Christopher  February 28, 2020
Folklore

Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

By Gretel Ehrlich  February 24, 2020
Poets

When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the
Spanish Civil War

By W. Jason Miller  February 24, 2020
News and Culture

Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

By Jean Genet  February 24, 2020
On Poetry

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
Amelia Earhart

By Traci Brimhall  February 21, 2020
Rereadings

In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

By Michelle Chihara  February 14, 2020
Colonialism

Lawrence of Arabia Understood the Middle East Better Than Many Modern Leaders

By Dale Maharidge  February 6, 2020
Conmen

The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

By Adam Sisman  February 3, 2020
Freedom of the Press

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for ‘Unspecified Reasons’

By Kaya Genç  January 31, 2020
Writer's Diaries

It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer’s Block

By Ludvík Vaculík  January 29, 2020
Civil Rights

The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks’ Life in Detroit

By Susan Reyburn  January 28, 2020
WWII

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

By Patrick Modiano  January 27, 2020
Poets

The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

By Ben Mazer  January 17, 2020
American Identity

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison’s Two Inviolable Identities

By John F. Callahan  January 16, 2020
American History

Meet a Bad Man Who Became
a Truly Great Spy

By Owen Matthews  December 16, 2019
Biography

The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

By Judith Arcana  December 11, 2019
Diaries

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
Daily Life, c. 1979

By Freeman's   December 9, 2019
Correspondence

The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

By John F. Callahan  December 6, 2019
News and Culture

The Unapologetic Politics
of Howard Fast

By Mark Harris  December 6, 2019
Immigration

Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

By Liesl Schillinger  December 5, 2019
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