• Biography

    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
    On Race

    The Vow James Baldwin Made to Young Civil Rights Activists

    By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.  July 28, 2020
    Theater

    My Mother and ‘Culture’:
    A Love Story

    By David Adjmi  July 28, 2020
    Celebrity

    The Dangerous and Untold Story of Paparazzi Work

    By Vanessa Diaz  July 24, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Chris Dickey, Writer, Friend, and Truly Great Editor

    By Will Cathcart  July 24, 2020
    On Poetry

    On Exploiting the Labor of a Dear Friend, Who is Also a Poet

    By Rebecca Wolff  July 23, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Australian Novelist Elizabeth Harrower

    By Michael Heyward  July 22, 2020
    Classics

    The Tenacious Constancy of
    The Merchant of Prato

    By Charles Nicholl  July 20, 2020
    Remembrances

    In His Life and Writing, Robert D. Richardson Was Precise and Compassionate

    By Megan Marshall  July 10, 2020
    Class

    How the Author of The Graduate Walked Away From Middle-Class Mores

    By Beverly Gray  July 2, 2020
    American Politics

    Pramila Jayapal on Changing the Establishment from the Inside

    By Pramila Jayapal  June 29, 2020
    Feminist History

    Vivian Gornick on the “Forgotten” Wife of Victorian Novelist, George Meredith

    By Vivian Gornick  June 24, 2020
    Income Inequality

    Inside the Creation of a Girl Scout Troop Unlike Any Other

    By Nikita Stewart  June 24, 2020
    On Racism

    The Death That Galvanized Malcolm X Against Police Brutality

    By Peniel E. Joseph  June 23, 2020
    Poets

    The Poet-Publisher Who Scorned Death by Pursuing It

    By Ben Mazer  June 22, 2020
    Great Authors

    Imagining One Last Lunch with My Father, John Cheever

    By Benjamin Cheever  June 22, 2020
    Politicians

    The World in Which Bernie Sanders Grew Up

    By Theodore Hamm  June 18, 2020
    Literary History

    Robert Walser and Jean Genet’s Dreams, Solitude, and Mundane Things

    By Moyra Davey  June 17, 2020
    Monarchy

    How Three Royal Brothers Ended an English Dynasty

    By Thomas Penn  June 16, 2020
    Literary History

    How Do You Write About a Woman Who Loathed the Spotlight?

    By Alice Miller  June 11, 2020
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