• Biography

    In Translation

    Hiroko Oyamada Wrote Her First Book, The Factory, in the Factory Where She Worked

    By David Boyd  October 23, 2020
    Illness

    How Audre Lorde’s Experience of Breast Cancer Fortified Her Revolutionary Politics

    By Tracy K. Smith  October 14, 2020
    Philosophy

    On Jewish Community and Identity in Jacques Derrida’s Algeria

    By Peter Salmon  October 14, 2020
    Abolition

    How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

    By H.W. Brands  October 14, 2020
    Musicians

    Prince Was One of the Loneliest Souls I’ve Ever Met

    By Neal Karlen  October 8, 2020
    Biography

    On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People’s Lives

    By Jonas Gardsby  October 7, 2020
    Nature

    On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

    By Kerri Andrews  October 7, 2020
    Travel Writing

    Reading the Travelogues of Percy Fawcett, Explorer of the Lost City of Z

    By A.J. Lees  October 6, 2020
    Lit Crit

    The Shape of His Stories: In Praise of Edward P. Jones

    By Elizabeth Poliner  October 5, 2020
    Criticism

    A Conversion of Suffering: At the Intersection of Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Paul Celan

    By Jamieson Webster  October 2, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

    By Brian Dillon  September 28, 2020
    Art History

    Was Abstract Art Actually Invented by a Mid-19th-Century Spiritualist?

    By Jennifer Dasal  September 23, 2020
    How to Read

    What Is So Special About Balzac’s Thousands of Characters?

    By Peter Brooks  September 23, 2020
    Musicians

    When Jimi Hendrix Took the UK by Storm

    By Philip Norman  September 17, 2020
    Biography

    Remembering Timothy Findley on His Home Ground

    By Sherrill Grace  September 10, 2020
    Irish Literature

    The Humble Confidence of Seamus Heaney

    By R. F. Foster  August 31, 2020
    Historical Fiction

    The Wife of “Italy’s George Washington” Was a Radical in Her Own Right

    By Diana Giovinazzo  August 26, 2020
    Keen On

    On the Similarities (and Differences) Between Donald Trump and Teddy Roosevelt

    By Keen On  August 21, 2020
    Biography

    Want to throw a wrench in your reading habit? Read the fantastical life of a saint.

    By Aaron Robertson  August 20, 2020
    Feminist History

    On Mary King Ward, 19th-Century Celebrity Scientist

    By Emily Willingham  August 14, 2020
    Gay Icons

    John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

    By Mark Dery  August 14, 2020
    Literary Biographies

    Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

    By Ann Jefferson  August 13, 2020
    Literary History

    Reading the First Drafts of
    Anna Karenina

    By Bob Blaisdell  August 6, 2020
    Artists

    On the Unique Artistic Sensibility of Magda Nachman

    By Lina Bernstein  July 29, 2020
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