• Biography

    Biography

    The Woman Who Launched a Newspaper During WWII

    By Alice Arlen and Michael J. Arlen  August 24, 2016
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    Svetlana Alexievich Grapples with Putin’s Russia

    By Svetlana Alexievich  August 22, 2016
    Profile

    When a Descendent of Witch Hunters Writes a Novel About Salem

    By Matthew Daddona  August 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 3, 2016
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    Catching Wild Bill and Jane: The End of a Killing Spree in Panama

    By Nick Foster  July 13, 2016
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    Dog Gone

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 17, 2016
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    Living With A Dead Language

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 15, 2016
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    Falling: A Daughter, A Father, and a Journey Back

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 13, 2016
    Biography

    The Origins of Diane Arbus’s Most Famous Photograph

    By Arthur Lubow  June 9, 2016
    Excerpts

    Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security Prison

    By Mikita Brottman  June 6, 2016
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    The Night Cassius Clay Beat Sonny Liston

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 4, 2016
    Excerpts

    When Two Feminists of Color Fall in Love

    By Ana Castillo  May 13, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Vanishing Velazquez

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 29, 2016
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    The Bronte Cabinet

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 21, 2016
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    The Conflicted Early Feminism of Louisa Catherine Adams

    By Louisa Thomas  April 14, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Greatest Violin No One’s Ever Heard

    By Quincy Whitney  April 8, 2016
    Essay

    Remembering Susan Sontag’s Final Days

    By Katie Roiphe  March 28, 2016
    Excerpts

    At the Existentialist Café

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 24, 2016
    Biography

    Neither Mad Nor Motherless: On Emily Dickinson’s Self-Creation

    By Jerome Charyn  March 22, 2016
    Essay

    A Life in Letters: From the New Republic to Iowa to Knopf…

    By Doris Grumbach  March 15, 2016
    Biography

    30 Books in 30 Days: Elizabeth Taylor on Terry Alford’s Fortune’s Fool

    By Elizabeth Taylor  March 3, 2016
    What to Read

    30 Books in 30 Days: Mary Ann Gwinn on Jill Leovy’s Ghettoside

    By Mary Ann Gwin  February 29, 2016
    Biography

    When George Plimpton Met the Best Bartender in Brooklyn

    By Tim Sultan  February 26, 2016
    Biography

    30 Books in 30 Days: Tess Taylor on Leo Damrosch’s Eternity’s Sunrise

    By Tess Taylor  February 26, 2016
    Biography

    30 Books in 30 Days: Katherine A. Powers on Charlotte Gordon’s Romantic Outlaws

    By Katherine A. Powers  February 24, 2016
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