Larry McMurtry, <em>Lonesome Dove</em> author (and sly American existentialist), dies at 84.

Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove author (and sly American existentialist), dies at 84.

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Read Tennessee Williams’s first published short story. (It’s weird.)

Read Tennessee Williams’s first published short story. (It’s weird.)

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On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

David Quammen Considers the Life of a Naturalist

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How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

Kelsey Osgood on the Life of Vivien Eliot and a Misguided Historical Narrative That Won't Go Away

By Kelsey Osgood | March 26, 2021

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

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

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

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Paulina Bren on Life at New York's Most Famous Women’s-Only Hotel

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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Equivalents</em> 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

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Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

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

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Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

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