Your Wednesday ASMR: John Ciardi reading his poem “Happiness.”

Your Wednesday ASMR: John Ciardi reading his poem “Happiness.”

By Walker Caplan | March 31, 2021

7 Autobiographies and Memoirs That Remind Us of the Messiness of Memory

7 Autobiographies and Memoirs That Remind Us of the Messiness of Memory

Whitney Otto Recommends Langston Hughes,
Gertrude Stein, and More

By Whitney Otto | March 31, 2021

Liberty or Death: On the Prophetic Visions and Unflinching Will of<br> Harriet Tubman

Liberty or Death: On the Prophetic Visions and Unflinching Will of
Harriet Tubman

Dorothy Wickenden Recounts the Early Life of an American Hero

By Dorothy Wickenden | March 31, 2021

A Radical Education: How Greenwich Village Transformed Eleanor Roosevelt

A Radical Education: How Greenwich Village Transformed Eleanor Roosevelt

Jan Jarboe Russell on the Friendships That Inspired and Nourished a Former First Lady

By Jan Jarboe Russell | March 30, 2021

A Novel Life: On the Literary and Political Legacy of<br> Edward Said

A Novel Life: On the Literary and Political Legacy of
Edward Said

Timothy Brennan: “He was never much drawn to academic fashions.”

By Timothy Brennan | March 29, 2021

Just what you never knew you always wanted: a playlist of Jane Austen’s favorite songs.

Just what you never knew you always wanted: a playlist of Jane Austen’s favorite songs.

By Walker Caplan | March 26, 2021

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

By Jonny Diamond | March 26, 2021

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

By Walker Caplan | March 26, 2021

On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

By David Quammen | March 26, 2021

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

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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