• Biography

    Indigenous Voices

    The Writer Who Uncovered Crimes Against His Native Ancestors

    By David Grann  November 20, 2020
    Spirituality

    Why Harry Houdini DID NOT Like Arthur Conan Doyle

    By Chris Gosden  November 19, 2020
    World War II

    The Mysterious Celebrity Miracle Worker of Postwar Germany

    By Monica Black  November 17, 2020
    Poets

    The Lost Digital Poems (and Erotica) of William H. Dickey

    By Matthew Kirschenbaum  November 16, 2020
    Musicians

    How Woody Guthrie’s Mother Shaped His Music of the Downtrodden

    By Gustavus Stadler  November 16, 2020
    TV

    Alex Trebek’s Life in
    Three Timelines

    By Claire McNear  November 10, 2020
    Literary Icons

    Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

    By David Lazar  November 9, 2020
    On Poetry

    How Claire Malroux’s Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

    By Marilyn Hacker  November 9, 2020
    On Memoir

    The First Mughal Emperor’s Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

    By William Dalrymple  November 5, 2020
    Liberalism

    Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

    By Pankaj Mishra  November 2, 2020
    Criticism

    Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson’s
    First Novel

    By Madelaine Lucas  October 29, 2020
    Biography

    A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

    By Emily Van Duyne  October 29, 2020
    On Poetry

    On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

    By Nicholas McDowell  October 29, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain’s Honor Code

    By Just the Right Book   October 29, 2020
    Writer's Retreats

    On Sylvia Plath’s Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists’ Colony

    By Heather Clark  October 28, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, October Edition

    By Book Marks  October 28, 2020
    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
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