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Women in War: On Great Correspondents Past and Present

Women in War: On Great Correspondents Past and Present

From Sapper Dorothy in WWI, to the Citizen Journalists of Today

By Jacqueline Winspear | April 2, 2020

Remembering Mark Strand: Lover of Voicemails, Roaster of Chickens, Writer of Poems

Remembering Mark Strand: Lover of Voicemails, Roaster of Chickens, Writer of Poems

Rebecca Dinerstein on the Life and Times of a Wonderful Mentor

By Rebecca Dinerstein Knight | March 31, 2020

The Songwriters Behind Country Music's Biggest Hits

The Songwriters Behind Country Music's Biggest Hits

On the Bryants' Contributions to Nashville's Musical Identity

By Bobbie and Bill Malone | March 30, 2020

The Black Descendants of President Madison

The Black Descendants of President Madison

Bettye Kearse on the Complicated Lineage of Her Ancestors

By Bettye Kearse | March 25, 2020

Young William Faulkner in the French Quarter

Young William Faulkner in the French Quarter

The Creolization of Faulkner's Writing

By Carl Rollyson | March 24, 2020

Uncovering the Hidden Love Lives of Sylvia Plath and William Faulkner

Uncovering the Hidden Love Lives of Sylvia Plath and William Faulkner

Carl Rollyson on Researching For His Two New Biographies

By Carl Rollyson | March 23, 2020

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Finding Octavia Butler's Pasadena

By Katie Orphan | March 13, 2020

Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

By D.J. Taylor | March 13, 2020

Tove Jansson Falls in Love

By Tove Jansson | March 11, 2020

Cultivating Solitude, <br>The Henry James' Way

Cultivating Solitude,
The Henry James' Way

On “the lonely celibate who has to boil his own pot.”

By Fenton Johnson | March 10, 2020

On Shirley Hazzard and the Antipodean Gaze

On Shirley Hazzard and the Antipodean Gaze

Michelle de Kretser on One of Australia's Great Writers

By Michelle de Krester | March 9, 2020

Frida Kahlo Was a Captivating Subject for Photographers

Frida Kahlo Was a Captivating Subject for Photographers

The Artist Took Photography as Seriously as Painting

By Celia Stahr | March 5, 2020

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

On Rose Pastor and the Activists of the University Settlement Society

By Adam Hochschild | March 5, 2020

How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

The Films of Dario Argento as a Metaphor for Illness

By Lonely Christopher | February 28, 2020

Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

Gretel Ehrlich on Yuri Rythkeu's Eulogy for the Chukchi Whale Hunt

By Gretel Ehrlich | February 24, 2020

When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the<br> Spanish Civil War

When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the
Spanish Civil War

A Poet Glimpses Franco's Spain

By W. Jason Miller | February 24, 2020

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