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“I Feel Like a Feather Floating in the Atmosphere.” How Thoreau Reckoned with the Loss of His Brother

“I Feel Like a Feather Floating in the Atmosphere.” How Thoreau Reckoned with the Loss of His Brother

Robert D. Richardson on the Writers’ Grief-Stricken Observations

By Robert D. Richardson | January 25, 2023

“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

Emily J. Orlando on the Writer’s Enduring Relevance and Foresight

By Emily J. Orlando | January 24, 2023

A Modernist’s Modernist: On the Brilliance—and Influence—of Katherine Mansfield

A Modernist’s Modernist: On the Brilliance—and Influence—of Katherine Mansfield

“Thinking about Mansfield’s work makes me understand again how literature is never just a story.”

By Kirsty Gunn | January 23, 2023

<em>Auden and the Muse of History</em> with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

Auden and the Muse of History with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | January 23, 2023

On the Life of George Kennan, Divided Between the United States and the Soviet Union

On the Life of George Kennan, Divided Between the United States and the Soviet Union

Frank Costigliola in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 23, 2023

Why <em>All Creatures Great and Small</em> is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet

Why All Creatures Great and Small is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet

Poised on the Ledge of WWII, the PBS Series Based on James Herriot’s Life Captures the Writer‘s Ethos

By Ethan Warren | January 20, 2023

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Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

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By Adam Colman | January 11, 2023

“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

“She didn’t give a hoot what anyone thought.”

By Aminatta Forna | January 10, 2023

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

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

Ross Benjamin on Translating Franz Kafka’s Diaries

By Ross Benjamin | January 10, 2023

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

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

“With me an unfinished thing is a thing that might as well be rubbed out.”

By Matthew Hollis | January 9, 2023

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

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

“Biography as a form is necessarily artificial. In the end, all biography is a form of fiction.”

By Craig Brown | January 8, 2023

What to Read Before and After Seeing <em>James Baldwin Abroad</em>

What to Read Before and After Seeing James Baldwin Abroad

Readings on the Life, Works, and Preoccupations of an American Icon

By Literary Hub | January 3, 2023

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

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

Estelle Paranque on a Tumultuous Childhood and a High-Stakes Betrothal

By Estelle Paranque | December 22, 2022

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