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Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

A Day in the Life of a Jailed Writer and Human Rights Advocate

By Kaya Genç | January 31, 2020

It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer's Block

It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer's Block

Diary Entries from Communist Czechoslovakia

By Ludvík Vaculík | January 29, 2020

The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks' Life in Detroit

The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks' Life in Detroit

Susan Reyburn Follows the Life of a Civil Rights Icon

By Susan Reyburn | January 28, 2020

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

Françoise Frenkel's No Place to Lay One’s Head Belongs in the Company of Literary Giants

By Patrick Modiano | January 27, 2020

The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

Schwartz's Supporters Compared Him to Eliot, Pound, and Auden

By Ben Mazer | January 17, 2020

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

“To become a true American a white American’s identity
must partake of blackness.”

By John F. Callahan | January 16, 2020

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The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

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The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

John F. Callahan Looks at What Decades of Correspondence Can Reveal

By John F. Callahan | December 6, 2019

The Unapologetic Politics <br>of Howard Fast

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Mark Harris on the Writer Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy

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Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Liesl Schillinger on the French Novelist Who Wrote
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On the Ambitious Beginnings of China's Influential Soong Sisters

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Jung Chang Recounts Ei-Ling Soongs' First Journey to America

By Jung Chang | December 5, 2019

Elaine Stritch's Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due

Elaine Stritch's Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due

On Alexandra Jacobs' Biography of an Icon Still Here

By Leah Rosenzweig | December 4, 2019

On Brian Doyle's Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

On Brian Doyle's Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

David James Duncan Remembers the Late Great Writer
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By David James Duncan | December 3, 2019

Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict

Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict

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