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Biography

Diaries

“What Excuse Do I Have for Having Written Nothing Yet Today? None.” Glimpses Into Kafka’s Workshop

By Ross Benjamin  January 10, 2023
Poets

That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

By Matthew Hollis  January 9, 2023
Biography

Nothing is Real: Craig Brown on the Slippery Art of Biography

By Craig Brown  January 8, 2023
Read This Watch That

What to Read Before and After Seeing James Baldwin Abroad

By Literary Hub  January 3, 2023
European History

From Florentine Orphan to French Princess: The Early Years of Catherine de Medici

By Estelle Paranque  December 22, 2022
In Memoriam

“I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

By Aram Mrjoian  December 22, 2022
Children's Literature

Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

By Hervé Tullet  December 21, 2022
Poets

Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

By Heather Cass White  December 20, 2022
The Hub

Charles Dickens partied HARD after finishing A Christmas Carol in just six weeks.

By Jonny Diamond  December 19, 2022
Artists

What a Young, Aspiring John Singer Sargent Learned From the Beauty of Florence

By Paul Fisher  December 19, 2022
The Hub

Thomas Pynchon’s archives have a home (Oedipa Maas and Zipi Pisk can finally relax)

By Jonny Diamond  December 16, 2022
Literary History

How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

By Nino Strachey  December 15, 2022
Authors in the Tent

Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart

By The Virtual Book Channel  December 15, 2022
2022

Notable Literary Deaths in 2022

By Emily Temple  December 14, 2022
Music Writing

“The Song Found Me.” An Oral History of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly”

By Marc Myers  December 14, 2022
Rock and Roll

How Paul McCartney Dispelled the Myth of His Own Death

By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair  December 13, 2022
Crime

How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Into the Mythical “G-Men”

By Beverly Gage  December 12, 2022
American Literature

What to Read Before and After The Adventures of Saul Bellow

By Literary Hub  December 9, 2022
Russian Literature

How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

By Bob Blaisdell  December 9, 2022
Sci-Fi and Fantasy

How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

By Jesmyn Ward  December 7, 2022
Art and Life

“Please Pretend That I am Dead.” Darcey Steinke on the Long, Complicated Life of Painter Agnes Martin

By Darcey Steinke  December 7, 2022
Artists

Scientific, Sexual and Sentimental: What Frida Kahlo Saw in the Orchid

By Erica Hannickel  December 6, 2022
Keen On

What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

By Keen On  December 2, 2022
Pirates

Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

By Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos  December 1, 2022
just the right book

Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

By Just the Right Book   December 1, 2022
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