• Biography

    Radicalism

    On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

    By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall  May 22, 2019
    Literary Oddities

    Flannery O’Connor’s Two Deepest Loves Were Mayonnaise and Her Mother

    By Caroline McCoy  May 17, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

    By Caroline Fraser  May 16, 2019
    WWII

    Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

    By David A. Taylor  May 14, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    Anjelica Huston on Finding Her Father in the Writing of Lillian Ross

    By Anjelica Huston  May 3, 2019
    Terminal Wit

    Dorothy Parker: Political Activist, Melancholic, Bootleg Scotch-Drinker

    By Mervyn Horder  May 1, 2019
    Geniuses

    On the Great Clarice Lispector

    By Benjamin Moser  April 30, 2019
    Queer Lit

    James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of Giovanni’s Room

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 25, 2019
    Feminism

    Germaine Greer and the Cusp of
    the Feminist Revolution

    By Elizabeth Kleinhenz  April 19, 2019
    Dead Presidents

    The Cautionary Patriotism of
    the Presidents Adams

    By Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein  April 18, 2019
    Love Affairs

    When Nelson Algren Fell in Love with Simone de Beauvoir

    By Colin Asher  April 17, 2019
    On Translation

    Embedded with the Beating Heart of Madagascar’s Literary Life

    By Allison M. Charette  April 17, 2019
    Sports

    Tragedies of Ambition: On the Fine Art of American Sportswriting

    By Wright Thompson  April 12, 2019
    Anarchy and Art

    The French Satirist Who Brought Anarchy Into Art

    By Edward Gauvin  April 3, 2019
    Biography

    Olive Schreiner: Charlotte Brontë of South Africa, 19th-Century Celebrity

    By Lyndall Gordon  March 29, 2019
    Biography

    On H.G. Adler’s Lectures from a Concentration Camp

    By Peter Filkins  March 13, 2019
    Excerpts

    Dictators Kill Poets: On Federico García Lorca’s Last Days

    By Aaron Shulman  March 5, 2019
    Essay

    On the Obsessions of the Literary Biographer

    By Lucasta Miller  March 5, 2019
    Biography

    The Unlikely Friendship Between a Philosopher and an Empress

    By Robert Zaretsky  February 22, 2019
    Excerpts

    The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

    By Stephen Koch  January 31, 2019
    Excerpts

    One Family’s Story of the Great Migration North

    By Bridgett M. Davis  January 30, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Meet the Writer Who Chased Eve Babitz All Over Hollywood

    By Zan Romanoff  January 10, 2019
    Excerpts

    Gabriel García Márquez Remembers His Dearest Friend, Julio Cortázar

    By Gabriel García Márquez  January 8, 2019
    Biography

    “Luminous Traitor”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 20, 2018
    Biography

    Edward Gorey, Frank O’Hara and Harvard’s Gay Underground

    By Mark Dery  December 17, 2018
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