• Biography

    Excerpts

    The Superhuman Charm of Ernest Hemingway, the “Most Shot-Up Man in America”

    By Mary V. Dearborn  May 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen

    By Helena Kelly  May 3, 2017
    Excerpts

    In Which Angela Carter Gives No F*cks

    By Edmund Gordon  March 29, 2017
    Excerpts

    How a Husband’s Loving Biography Ruined His Wife’s Reputation

    By Richard Holmes  March 21, 2017
    Design

    Zora Neale Hurston: The College Years

    By Peter Bagge  March 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    William Seabrook, Great Travel Writer, Terrible Human

    By Joe Ollman  February 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Clara Hale and Audre Lorde Helped to Make New York

    By Julie Scelfo  January 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. on His Son’s Legacy

    By The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.  January 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 4, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Shirley Hazzard’s Teenage Spy Career

    By Paul French  December 20, 2016
    Biography

    By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O’Neill

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 9, 2016
    Biography

    Literary Frenemies: Jean Cocteau and Marcel Proust

    By Claude Arnaud  October 24, 2016
    Feature

    On the Poetic Brilliance of Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind

    By Rosie Schaap  October 14, 2016
    Excerpts

    On Bob Dylan’s Literary Influences

    By Mark Polizzotti  October 14, 2016
    Essay

    What Bob Dylan Learned From Soul

    By Lawrence Joseph  October 14, 2016
    Biography

    Girl Trouble

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 14, 2016
    Biography

    So Who Exactly is Bob Dylan, Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate?

    By Lisa Levy  October 13, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Publishing Gamble That Changed America

    By Barney Rosset  October 13, 2016
    Essay

    More Big Literary Biographies of Women, Please

    By Lisa Levy  September 28, 2016
    Biography

    Shirley Jackson Wasn’t Actually a Witch

    By Ruth Franklin  September 28, 2016
    Excerpts

    When Young Rilke Moved to the Big City and Met Rodin

    By Rachel Corbett  September 23, 2016
    Biography

    One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

    By Charles Arrowsmith  September 14, 2016
    Biography

    On the Celibate Love Affair of Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols

    By Richard Cohen  September 12, 2016
    Excerpts

    Swimming in the Sink

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    How Borges Taught Me to Embrace My Jewish Heritage

    By Ilan Stavans  September 2, 2016
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