• Biography

    Poets

    The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

    By Ben Mazer  January 17, 2020
    American Identity

    John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison’s Two Inviolable Identities

    By John F. Callahan  January 16, 2020
    American History

    Meet a Bad Man Who Became
    a Truly Great Spy

    By Owen Matthews  December 16, 2019
    Biography

    The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

    By Judith Arcana  December 11, 2019
    Diaries

    From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
    Daily Life, c. 1979

    By Freeman's   December 9, 2019
    Correspondence

    The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

    By John F. Callahan  December 6, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Unapologetic Politics
    of Howard Fast

    By Mark Harris  December 6, 2019
    Immigration

    Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

    By Liesl Schillinger  December 5, 2019
    Biography

    On the Ambitious Beginnings of China’s Influential Soong Sisters

    By Jung Chang  December 5, 2019
    Celebrity

    Elaine Stritch’s Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due

    By Leah Rosenzweig  December 4, 2019
    In Memoriam

    On Brian Doyle’s Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

    By David James Duncan  December 3, 2019
    Reading Women

    Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict

    By Reading Women  November 27, 2019
    Celebrity

    How Ian McKellen Almost Didn’t Play Gandalf

    By Garry O'Connor  November 26, 2019
    Family Stories

    A Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster

    By Sarah Abrevaya Stein  November 22, 2019
    Reading Women

    Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women’s Fiction Award

    By Reading Women  November 20, 2019
    Mathematics

    On the Sci-Fi Pioneer Who Brought Math to the Masses

    By David Lindsay Roberts  November 19, 2019
    Civil Rights

    The Education of a Civil Rights Hero

    By Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe  November 19, 2019
    Art

    Robert Polito on the Art of Iconoclastic Film Critic Manny Farber

    By Robert Polito  November 18, 2019
    Art History

    On the Humorous Surrealism
    of Mimi Parent

    By Penelope Rosemont  November 14, 2019
    Love

    Broken Heart? Immanuel Kant is Here to Help

    By Marie Robert  November 13, 2019
    Art History

    Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

    By John Richardson  November 13, 2019
    Public Intellectuals

    On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

    By Nicholas Buccola  November 12, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Elizabeth Bishop in Key West, Island of Her Dreams

    By Thomas Travisano  November 12, 2019
    Literary History

    On the Difficulty of Convincing Samuel Beckett of Just About Anything

    By Deirdre Bair  November 11, 2019
    Writing Life

    The Wild, Impassioned World of Anaïs Nin’s Diaries

    By Kim Krizan  November 8, 2019
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