• Biography

    Poets

    On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

    By Farouk Yousif  September 12, 2019
    The Paranormal

    Laura van den Berg on Divining the Unseeable, and Her Family’s History with the Paranormal

    By Laura van den Berg  September 11, 2019
    Refugees

    Dina Nayeri on Returning to the Hotel-Turned-Refugee-Camp of Her Childhood

    By Dina Nayeri  September 11, 2019
    Astronomy

    The Humble Origins of the Man Who Discovered Dark Matter

    By John Johnson, Jr.  September 11, 2019
    The Spanish Civil War

    The Communist Plot to Assassinate George Orwell

    By Duncan White  September 10, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Graphic Novel: The True Story of Granny Lee Ok-sun

    By Keum Suk Gendry-Kim  September 9, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

    By Ishmael Reed  September 6, 2019
    Street Photography

    How Arthur Fellig Became the Legendary Street Photographer Weegee

    By Christopher Bonanos  August 23, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Biography

    By Literary Hub  August 22, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

    By Jay Parini  August 21, 2019
    Screenwriters

    Walter Mosley in Conversation with Legendary Filmmaker Walter Bernstein

    By Walter Mosley  August 20, 2019
    Memoir

    The Road to Oliver Sacks’

    By Lawrence Weschler  August 13, 2019
    Personal Essay

    Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

    By Brandon Shimoda  July 30, 2019
    Modern Classics

    The Writer and the Dictator:
    A Love/Hate Story

    By Alaa Al Aswany  July 29, 2019
    Literary love stories

    Behind the Myths of Scott and Zelda’s Epic Romance

    By Eleanor Lanahan  July 23, 2019
    Photography

    Borscht Beach: Andy Sweet’s Iconic South Beach Photography

    By Literary Hub  July 23, 2019
    In This Essay I Will...

    Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don’t Read Too Much.

    By Antoine Compagnon  June 27, 2019
    Gay Icons

    On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

    By Camille Paglia  June 27, 2019
    Criticism

    Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal’s Long Career

    By Catherine Lacey  June 25, 2019
    Literary History

    What Was Hemingway Doing in Cuba During World War II?

    By Andrew Feldman  June 24, 2019
    Journalism

    On America’s First Openly Gay Reporter at a Major Newspaper

    By Andrew E. Stoner  June 19, 2019
    Movies

    How Lakshmi Shankar Became the Voice Behind the Epic Gandhi

    By Kavita Das  June 17, 2019
    Literary History

    What the 39,933 Items on Peter Matthiessen’s Computer Mean for the Art of Biography

    By Lance Richardson  June 13, 2019
    Art History

    In Pablo Picasso’s Studio During the Nazi Occupation of Paris

    By Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake  June 13, 2019
    Literary History

    Jack London, Rags to Riches and Back Again

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  June 7, 2019
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