• Biography

    Jewish Literature

    How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

    By David Stromberg  November 16, 2023
    American Literature

    Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

    By Benjamin Taylor  November 15, 2023
    Willa Cather

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine in Praise of Willa Cather and the American Southwest

    By Kali Fajardo-Anstine  November 14, 2023
    Shakespeare's First Folio

    The 400th Anniversary: Look Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Jane Austen

    How American Critics Originated Jane Austen Scholarship

    By Juliette Wells  November 6, 2023
    Long Lost Writers

    Everything You Need to Know About Groundbreaking Queer Feminist Science Fiction Writer Joanna Russ

    By Jon Michaud  November 3, 2023
    Early Russian Literature

    How a 17th Century Priest Invented the Russian Novel

    By Irina Zhorov  November 1, 2023
    Espionage

    Spying is Lying: How David Cornwell Became John Le Carré

    By Adam Sisman  October 30, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    The Transcendental Genius of George Balanchine’s Ballet

    By Jennifer Homans  October 27, 2023
    Poets

    How W.H. Auden Made Austria His Adopted Home

    By Michael O’Sullivan  October 19, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing and Parenting with Her Husband, Charles

    By Arwen Curry  October 18, 2023
    Introduction

    Hilary Mantel Loved Newspapers and Other Insights From Her Longtime Editor

    By Nicholas Pearson  October 18, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Writing Process

    By Arwen Curry  October 11, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

    By Patrick Weil  October 9, 2023
    Craft

    Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

    By Anne Eekhout  October 5, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Characters of Color

    By Arwen Curry  October 4, 2023
    Ballet

    How Alexei Ratmansky Brought A New Kind of Ballet to America

    By Marina Harss  October 3, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Creating the World of Earthsea

    By Arwen Curry  September 27, 2023
    Writing Process

    “To Be A Writer, You Must Write”: How Joan Didion Became Joan Didion

    By Evelyn McDonnell  September 26, 2023
    Craft

    Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

    By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
    Activism

    How Bayard Rustin Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nonviolent Activism

    By Jonathan Eig  September 25, 2023
    Nature

    How America’s Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

    By Tiya Miles  September 21, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Fantasy as a Young Girl

    By Arwen Curry  September 20, 2023
    Novelists

    Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

    By Tracy Daugherty  September 18, 2023
    Astronauts

    First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

    By Loren Grush  September 14, 2023
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