Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg’s Early Days

Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg’s Early Days

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | September 9, 2021

The In-Between World: On the Mythology of <em>The Famished Road</em> and the Literary Scaffolding of Ben Okri

The In-Between World: On the Mythology of The Famished Road and the Literary Scaffolding of Ben Okri

Vanessa Guignery Considers the Author's Blurring of Boundaries

By Vanessa Guignery | September 8, 2021

The Role That Got Away: Hayley Mills on (Almost) Playing Lolita

The Role That Got Away: Hayley Mills on (Almost) Playing Lolita

The Iconic Actor Recalls the Near Misses of Her Post-Pollyanna Career

By Hayley Mills | September 7, 2021

Brigette Benkeman on Dora Maar, Surrealist Photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman”

Brigette Benkeman on Dora Maar, Surrealist Photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman”

This Week from the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | September 7, 2021

Exploring the “Hidden Figures” of the WWII Women’s Army Corps

Exploring the “Hidden Figures” of the WWII Women’s Army Corps

Kaia Alderson on the Books That Shaped Her Debut Novel

By Kaia Alderson | September 3, 2021

On the Life and Under-Recognized Work of Margery Latimer, Visionary Modernist Writer

On the Life and Under-Recognized Work of Margery Latimer, Visionary Modernist Writer

Joy Castro Revisits an Intellectual Ahead of Her Time

By Joy Castro | September 2, 2021

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Once Dostoyevsky’s Stenographer, Then His Wife

By Andrew D. Kaufman | August 31, 2021

Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston’s Initial Reception

By Big Table | August 31, 2021

How the Great Billie Jean King Challenged the Patriarchy

By Billie Jean King | August 30, 2021

Who Was Mary Shelley, Daughter?

Who Was Mary Shelley, Daughter?

Samantha Silva on the Liminal Space Between Daughterhood and Motherhood

By Samantha Silva | August 30, 2021

How the War Made Wittgenstein the Philosopher He Was

How the War Made Wittgenstein the Philosopher He Was

Richard Barnett Reads the Tractatus as Modernist War Poetry

By Richard Barnett | August 27, 2021

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

Giles Tremlett on Gerda Taro, Who Documented the Spanish Civil War and Died in Action

By Giles Tremlett | August 25, 2021

On the Racism of Andrew Johnson, Self-Identified White Ally and “Your Moses”

On the Racism of Andrew Johnson, Self-Identified White Ally and “Your Moses”

Robert S. Levine Considers the White-Savior Complex of the 17th President

By Robert S. Levine | August 24, 2021

Read a previously unpublished Ursula K. Le Guin poem.

Read a previously unpublished Ursula K. Le Guin poem.

By Walker Caplan | August 20, 2021

To Abandon Civilization with Glee: Tracking Tigers in the Russian Wilderness

To Abandon Civilization with Glee: Tracking Tigers in the Russian Wilderness

Jonathan Franklin on a Rafting Trip in the USSR with Tom Brokaw and the "Do Boys"

By Jonathan Franklin | August 19, 2021

Behind the Invention of the Cryptosystem That Revolutionized Tech

Behind the Invention of the Cryptosystem That Revolutionized Tech

Ian Stewart on the Revolutionary Ideas of Clifford Cocks

By Ian Stewart | August 18, 2021

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