• Biography

    Poets

    When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the
    Spanish Civil War

    By W. Jason Miller  February 24, 2020
    News and Culture

    Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

    By Jean Genet  February 24, 2020
    On Poetry

    On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
    Amelia Earhart

    By Traci Brimhall  February 21, 2020
    Rereadings

    In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

    By Michelle Chihara  February 14, 2020
    Colonialism

    Lawrence of Arabia Understood the Middle East Better Than Many Modern Leaders

    By Dale Maharidge  February 6, 2020
    Conmen

    The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

    By Adam Sisman  February 3, 2020
    Freedom of the Press

    Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for ‘Unspecified Reasons’

    By Kaya Genç  January 31, 2020
    Writer's Diaries

    It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer’s Block

    By Ludvík Vaculík  January 29, 2020
    Civil Rights

    The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks’ Life in Detroit

    By Susan Reyburn  January 28, 2020
    WWII

    Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

    By Patrick Modiano  January 27, 2020
    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
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