A new original draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has just been discovered.

A new original draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has just been discovered.

By Walker Caplan | March 24, 2021

Women of the New Frontier: On the Trailblazers Who Reimagined Television

Women of the New Frontier: On the Trailblazers Who Reimagined Television

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Considers a Forgotten Chapter in the History of Broadcast Culture

By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong | March 24, 2021

Why Alfred Hitchcock’s Films Still Feel Dangerous

Why Alfred Hitchcock’s Films Still Feel Dangerous

David Thomson on a Genius of Cinema

By David Thomson | March 24, 2021

Helen Frankenthaler: From High Society to Downtown Art Scene in 1950s NYC

Helen Frankenthaler: From High Society to Downtown Art Scene in 1950s NYC

Alexander Nemerov on the Life and Times an American Painter

By Alexander Nemerov | March 23, 2021

Adrian Piper on the Earned Power of Self-Identification

Adrian Piper on the Earned Power of Self-Identification

Reclaiming Labels and Rejecting the Boxes Constructed by the Dominant Establishment

By Shaun Usher | March 23, 2021

Listen to a wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

Listen to a wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

By Walker Caplan | March 22, 2021

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How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy

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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty

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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Price of Peace</em> by Zachary D. Carter

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Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 18, 2021

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Robert Alter on Nabokov’s Literary Invention

By Robert Alter | March 17, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Dead Are Arising</em> by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 16, 2021

On that time John Wilkes Booth and his brothers starred in <em>Julius Caesar.</em>

On that time John Wilkes Booth and his brothers starred in Julius Caesar.

By Walker Caplan | March 15, 2021

Existence as Resistance: How Josephine Baker Challenged Misogynoir

Existence as Resistance: How Josephine Baker Challenged Misogynoir

Terri Simone Francis on Agency, Black Womanhood, and Representation in Film

By Terri Simone Francis | March 12, 2021

After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

Josephine Rowe Reads The Bone House in Rome

By Josephine Rowe | March 11, 2021

A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Harmony Holiday on the Public-Private Tensions of Black Life in America

By Harmony Holiday | March 11, 2021

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