• Biography

    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
    Nazis

    Hans Fallada, the Anti-Nazi Writer Who Reluctantly Served the Reich

    By Geoff Wilkes  November 8, 2019
    Reading Women

    Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women’s Nonfiction Award

    By Reading Women  November 6, 2019
    Civics

    Nancy Pelosi on Looking to Eleanor Roosevelt for Hope

    By Nancy Pelosi  November 5, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
    Post-Truth Age

    By Joanna Kavenna  October 25, 2019
    Icons

    The Gloriously Understated Career of Elaine Stritch

    By Alexandra Jacobs  October 22, 2019
    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
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