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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

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

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

Alice Miller on Georgie Hyde-Lees, Who Was Married to a Famous Irish Poet

By Alice Miller | June 11, 2020

On the Radical Afterlives of William Wordsworth

On the Radical Afterlives of William Wordsworth

A Poet Who Inspired a Generation of Naturalists and Artists

By Jonathan Bate | June 10, 2020

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

By Michael Schuman | June 10, 2020

The Making of an Indigenous Land Activist

By Nina Lakhani | June 8, 2020

Editing Larry Kramer, a Man Larger than Life

By Helen Eisenbach | June 1, 2020

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

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

In Search of "The Weeping Woman"

By Brigitte Benkemoun | May 29, 2020

John Barth Deserves a Wider Audience

John Barth Deserves a Wider Audience

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

By John Domini | May 27, 2020

Letters of War, and the End of Youth

Letters of War, and the End of Youth

Claire Messud on Her Family's WWII Correspondence

By Claire Messud | May 22, 2020

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

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

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

By Edmund White | May 20, 2020

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

On Mabel Stark, a Big Cat Trainer Ahead of Her Time

By Robert Hough | May 20, 2020

Even in His Retirement, Philip Roth Wrote Thousands of Pages

Even in His Retirement, Philip Roth Wrote Thousands of Pages

Benjamin Taylor on Stoicism and Scandal in the Life of
an American Icon

By Benjamin Taylor | May 19, 2020

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