• Biography

    Diarists

    Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

    By Alejandro Zambra  October 22, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Trial of Harry Houdini

    By Joe Posnanski  October 22, 2019
    True Crime

    Murder in Paradise: The Tale of the Baroness and the Bohemians

    By Mars van Grunsven  October 18, 2019
    Native American Lit

    How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

    By Janice Gould  October 18, 2019
    Correspondence

    A Friendship in Letters:
    Flannery O’Connor and Katherine Anne Porter

    By Benjamin B. Alexander  October 16, 2019
    Musicians

    On the Groundbreaking Documentary That Brought the Birthplace of Chicago Blues Alive

    By David Dann  October 16, 2019
    Biography

    The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

    By Iris Origo  October 15, 2019
    Love

    Rumi Priestly Poet of Love and Master of the One Liner

    By Brad Gooch   October 10, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

    By Morten Høi Jensen  October 7, 2019
    News and Culture

    Tracing the Family Legacy From My Suffragette Grandmothers

    By Adele Logan Alexander  October 7, 2019
    Anti-Colonialism

    The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin’s Last Two Unfinished Works

    By Bill V. Mullen  October 4, 2019
    Archives

    The Author Who Didn’t Care to Be Remembered

    By Jean-Christophe Cloutier  October 4, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Jazz Age Heiress Who Witnessed WWII Up Close

    By Peter Finn  September 24, 2019
    Criticism

    Open to Interpretation: The Brief Relationship of Susan Sontag and Jasper Johns

    By Benjamin Moser  September 19, 2019
    Correspondence

    The Last Love Letters of Anti-Nazi German Resistance Fighters

    By Helmuth Caspar von Moltke, Dorothea von Moltke, and Johannes von Moltke  September 18, 2019
    The Lives of Women

    On Alma Mahler, Muse and Mistress of Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

    By Cate Haste  September 16, 2019
    Literary History

    The US Tour That Made Gertrude Stein a Household Name

    By Roy Morris, Jr.  September 16, 2019
    Poets

    On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

    By Farouk Yousif  September 12, 2019
    The Paranormal

    Laura van den Berg on Divining the Unseeable, and Her Family’s History with the Paranormal

    By Laura van den Berg  September 11, 2019
    Refugees

    Dina Nayeri on Returning to the Hotel-Turned-Refugee-Camp of Her Childhood

    By Dina Nayeri  September 11, 2019
    Astronomy

    The Humble Origins of the Man Who Discovered Dark Matter

    By John Johnson, Jr.  September 11, 2019
    The Spanish Civil War

    The Communist Plot to Assassinate George Orwell

    By Duncan White  September 10, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Graphic Novel: The True Story of Granny Lee Ok-sun

    By Keum Suk Gendry-Kim  September 9, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

    By Ishmael Reed  September 6, 2019
    Street Photography

    How Arthur Fellig Became the Legendary Street Photographer Weegee

    By Christopher Bonanos  August 23, 2019
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