• Biography

    Historical Fiction

    Jonathan Lee on the Man Who Built New York City… Only to Disappear Into It

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch this never-aired ABC television profile of James Baldwin.

    By Walker Caplan  June 14, 2021
    Literary History

    The Radical Sensibility Behind the Federal Writers’ Project

    By Scott Borchert  June 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Apparently, William Styron was fired from his first job in publishing for being a total slob.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  June 11, 2021
    New Books Network

    Pamela Hamilton on Excavating the Life of Dorothy Hale

    By New Books Network  June 11, 2021
    Art

    Carrie Mae Weems and the Long History of Collective Self-Institutionalization Among Black Radicals

    By Thomas J. Lax  June 11, 2021
    The Hub

    “The books are no longer themselves.” Saul Bellow’s prescient takedown of literary criticism.

    By Walker Caplan  June 10, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Mark Baumer: Barefoot Walker, Poet, Climate Activist, Friend

    By Claire Donato  June 10, 2021
    Big Table

    On the Excoriating Speech Nelson Algren Delivered to College English Students

    By Big Table  June 10, 2021
    Book Collection

    “Horseshit!” Yes, Marlon Brando, Eclectic Bibliophile, Wrote in His Books

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  June 7, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch Allen Ginsberg perform the first song he ever wrote, on the roof of his apartment.

    By Walker Caplan  June 3, 2021
    Creativity

    How Don Cherry Employed the Metaphysical Body-Space to Inspire Communal Creativity

    By Fumi Okiji  June 3, 2021
    Cookbooks

    How a Single Cookbook Shaped What It Meant to Be an “American Woman”

    By Jess McHugh  June 2, 2021
    Marriage

    How a Pioneering Mathematician Held Her Family Together in the Wake of Her Husband’s Medical Emergency

    By Katherine Johnson, Joylette Hylick, and Katherine Moore  May 26, 2021
    Keen On

    Brad Stone: What Happened to Jeff Bezos?

    By Keen On  May 26, 2021
    WWI

    The Man Behind the Guns
    of World War I

    By Nathan Gorenstein  May 25, 2021
    Folk Music

    The Poets That Helped a Young Bob Dylan Find His Voice

    By Clinton Heylin  May 24, 2021
    Rock'n'roll

    “All the Friends I Ever Had Are Gone.” On the Later Years of Bob Dylan

    By Howard Sounes  May 24, 2021
    Poets

    Contemplating the Devotions of W.S. Merwin in the Wilds of North Jersey

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 20, 2021
    Feminist History

    Mary Wollstonecraft is a Double Taurus, Or: How an Astrologer Helped Unstick My Novel

    By Samantha Silva  May 20, 2021
    American History

    The “Mystic Inklings” and Savvy Business Acumen of Victoria Woodhull

    By Emily Midorikawa  May 20, 2021
    Literary History

    The Time I Watched Norman Mailer Try to Fight G. Gordon Liddy in the Street

    By James Grady  May 19, 2021
    The Jazz Age

    The Half-Truths of Harrison Post: Moneyed Magnate or Jazz Age Grifter?

    By Liz Brown  May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Turns out Isaac Asimov, father of robotics, was also the father of 100 “lecherous limericks.”

    By Walker Caplan  May 18, 2021
    Economics

    On the Small Family Firm Responsible for So Much American Economic Power

    By Zachary Karabell  May 18, 2021
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