The Corrupt Arrogance of William Barr

The Corrupt Arrogance of William Barr

Elie Honig on the Former Attorney General’s “Feigned Ignorance”

By Elie Honig | July 19, 2021

How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press

How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press

When the US First Encountered the “Aesthetic Apostle”

By Nicholas Frankel | July 19, 2021

For the first time, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries will be available to the public.

For the first time, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries will be available to the public.

By Walker Caplan | July 15, 2021

Shirley Jackson on Navigating Literary Fame Alongside Financial Uncertainty

Shirley Jackson on Navigating Literary Fame Alongside Financial Uncertainty

The Struggles of a Great American Writer, Revealed in Letters to Her Parents

By Shirley Jackson | July 14, 2021

Why Is Jerry Seinfeld One of the Most Successful Stand-Up Comedians of All Time?

Why Is Jerry Seinfeld One of the Most Successful Stand-Up Comedians of All Time?

David Steinberg on the Life and Times of an Iconic Entertainer

By David Steinberg | July 14, 2021

Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

Elizabeth Greenwood On the People Who Seek Relationships with the Incarcerated

By Elizabeth Greenwood | July 12, 2021

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When Franklin Pierce Saved Nathaniel Hawthorne from Financial Ruin

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Biographer Heather Martin Takes the Measure of Two Literary Lives

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The Humble Beginnings of the American Circus

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Les Standiford on James Bailey's Hard-Scrabble Roots

By Les Standiford | June 24, 2021

John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

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Lives Lived on the Opposite Sides of the American Dream

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Move over, tea controversy—turns out Jane Austen’s brother was an abolitionist.

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Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway

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Ellen Barkin Narrates Yours, for Probably Always

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Is Alice Munro’s Lone Novel... Even a Novel?

Is Alice Munro’s Lone Novel... Even a Novel?

Benjamin Hedin on the Formal Mastery of The Lives of Girls and Women

By Benjamin Hedin | June 16, 2021

The Balloon-Hoax of Edgar Allan Poe and Early New York Grifters

The Balloon-Hoax of Edgar Allan Poe and Early New York Grifters

John Tresch on the Advent of Extreme Publicity

By John Tresch | June 16, 2021

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