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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Home is a Living Sketchbook: Inside the Artistic Design of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

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On the Transformation of a Creative Couple's Domestic Space, Structures, and Roles

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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Red Comet</em> by Heather Clark

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Tara Wanda Merrigan on One of the Finalists for Biography

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D.H. Lawrence was the king of innuendo—but wouldn't admit it.

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How Leonora Carrington Used Tarot to Reach Self-Enlightenment

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Gabriel Weisz Carrington on His Mother's Quest for Mythic Revelations

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The Story of Pan Am’s First <br>Black Stewardesses

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Julia Cooke on Hazel Bowie and the Struggle for Open Skies

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(Almost) Every Cultural Reference in <em>Pretend It's a City</em>, Annotated

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A Brief History of Women Street Photographers

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Melissa Breyer on the Pioneers Who Challenged Gender Roles

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