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The Death That Galvanized Malcolm X Against Police Brutality

The Death That Galvanized Malcolm X Against Police Brutality

Peniel Joseph on the Case of Ronald Stokes in 1960s LA

By Peniel E. Joseph | June 23, 2020

The Poet-Publisher Who Scorned Death by Pursuing It

The Poet-Publisher Who Scorned Death by Pursuing It

Ben Mazer on the Wild and Profligate Life of Harry Crosby

By Ben Mazer | June 22, 2020

Imagining One Last Lunch with My Father, John Cheever

Imagining One Last Lunch with My Father, John Cheever

Benjamin Cheever Wonders How He'd Explain Donald Trump

By Benjamin Cheever | June 22, 2020

The World in Which Bernie Sanders Grew Up

The World in Which Bernie Sanders Grew Up

Theodore Hamm on WWII-Era Brooklyn, the New Deal, and Commies Fightin' Fascists

By Theodore Hamm | June 18, 2020

Robert Walser and Jean Genet's Dreams, Solitude, and Mundane Things

Robert Walser and Jean Genet's Dreams, Solitude, and Mundane Things

Moyra Davey Reads Deep Into the Night

By Moyra Davey | June 17, 2020

How Three Royal Brothers Ended an English Dynasty

How Three Royal Brothers Ended an English Dynasty

Thomas Penn on the Tragedy of the Brothers York

By Thomas Penn | June 16, 2020

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How Do You Write About a Woman Who Loathed the Spotlight?

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On the Radical Afterlives of William Wordsworth

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On the Time China's Leader Deng Xiaoping Went to a Rodeo in Texas

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The Making of an Indigenous Land Activist

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Nina Lakhani on the Late Berta Cáceres

By Nina Lakhani | June 8, 2020

Editing Larry Kramer, a Man Larger than Life

Editing Larry Kramer, a Man Larger than Life

Helen Eisenbach on The Normal Heart

By Helen Eisenbach | June 1, 2020

On the Untold Talent of Dora Maar, More Than a Muse of Picasso

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In Search of "The Weeping Woman"

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John Barth Deserves a Wider Audience

John Barth Deserves a Wider Audience

Happy 90th Birthday to the Author of The Sot-Weed Factor

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Letters of War, and the End of Youth

Letters of War, and the End of Youth

Claire Messud on Her Family's WWII Correspondence

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Lauren Francis-Sharma: <br>'What if the Facts Aren't the Facts at All?'

Lauren Francis-Sharma:
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On Writers of Color Confronting Historical Fiction

By Lauren Francis-Sharma | May 22, 2020

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Edmund White on Curzio Malaparte's Oblong Visions of the World

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