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Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

Cullen Murphy Shares the Writer’s Interactions with Josephine Baker, Gore Vidal, Princess Margaret and More

By Cullen Murphy | November 21, 2022

How Jane Austen Almost Walked Away From Writing

How Jane Austen Almost Walked Away From Writing

Anna Beer Ponders the Possible Loss of a Literary Icon

By Anna Beer | November 18, 2022

“Polluters Will Be Looked Upon as Swine.” On Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmental Activism

“Polluters Will Be Looked Upon as Swine.” On Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmental Activism

Christina Jarvis on the Literary Icon’s Advocacy for Planetary Citizenship

By Christina Jarvis | November 17, 2022

On Chuck Berry’s Early Literary Influences

On Chuck Berry’s Early Literary Influences

RJ Smith Recounts the Father of Rock and Roll's Childhood Occupation with Greatness

By RJ Smith | November 16, 2022

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

“If you come to live there, come to know it, you will live in other times.”

By Brigitta Olubas | November 15, 2022

“Maybe Broccoli Doesn’t Like You Either” (Lot 151) On the Allure of Joan Didion’s Objects

“Maybe Broccoli Doesn’t Like You Either” (Lot 151) On the Allure of Joan Didion’s Objects

Mary Kate Frank Wonders at the Power We Give to Things

By Mary Kate Frank | November 15, 2022

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Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Emily Van Duyne’s Tribute to a “Lover of Unreason and an Exile”

By Emily Van Duyne | November 9, 2022

How Grief and Revenge Made Geronimo Into a Legendary War Chief

How Grief and Revenge Made Geronimo Into a Legendary War Chief

Before Geronimo Became the Apaches’ Fabled War Commander, He Lost Everything

By H.W. Brands | November 8, 2022

Lynn Caponera on the Wild and Wonderful Legacy of Maurice Sendak

Lynn Caponera on the Wild and Wonderful Legacy of Maurice Sendak

“His work had the magical ability to be different and still be essentially Sendak all at the same time.”

By Lynn Caponera | November 3, 2022

How Samuel Adams Fought for Independence—Anonymously

How Samuel Adams Fought for Independence—Anonymously

Stacy Schiff on the Journalistic Pseudonyms of an American Revolutionary

By Stacy Schiff | November 3, 2022

Perhaps the Most Remarkable Thing About Charlie Watts Was Just How Remarkably Ordinary He Was

Perhaps the Most Remarkable Thing About Charlie Watts Was Just How Remarkably Ordinary He Was

Paul Sexton in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 2, 2022

Out of the Shadows: On the Forgotten Mothers of the Occult

Out of the Shadows: On the Forgotten Mothers of the Occult

Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson on the Women Behind Ouija and Tarot

By Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson | October 31, 2022

“I’d Read Her Grocery Lists.” On Cooking with Sylvia Plath

“I’d Read Her Grocery Lists.” On Cooking with Sylvia Plath

Eliza Dumais Navigates the Intersection of the Domestic and the Literary

By Eliza Dumais | October 27, 2022

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