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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Price of Peace</em> by Zachary D. Carter

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter

Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 18, 2021

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Robert Alter on Nabokov’s Literary Invention

By Robert Alter | March 17, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Dead Are Arising</em> by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 16, 2021

On that time John Wilkes Booth and his brothers starred in <em>Julius Caesar.</em>

On that time John Wilkes Booth and his brothers starred in Julius Caesar.

By Walker Caplan | March 15, 2021

Existence as Resistance: How Josephine Baker Challenged Misogynoir

Existence as Resistance: How Josephine Baker Challenged Misogynoir

Terri Simone Francis on Agency, Black Womanhood, and Representation in Film

By Terri Simone Francis | March 12, 2021

After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

Josephine Rowe Reads The Bone House in Rome

By Josephine Rowe | March 11, 2021

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A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

By Harmony Holiday | March 11, 2021

How Kurt Wolff Transformed Pantheon into a 20th-Century Publishing Powerhouse

By Alexander Wolff | March 10, 2021

Here’s the literary Twitter bot that’s helped me survive lockdown.

By Jonny Diamond | March 9, 2021

Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

Robert Zaretsky on the Philosophy of Negative Effort

By Robert Zaretsky | March 9, 2021

Home is a Living Sketchbook: Inside the Artistic Design of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

Home is a Living Sketchbook: Inside the Artistic Design of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

On the Transformation of a Creative Couple's Domestic Space, Structures, and Roles

By Melissa Wyse | March 4, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Red Comet</em> by Heather Clark

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Red Comet by Heather Clark

Tara Wanda Merrigan on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Tara Wanda Merrigan | March 3, 2021

D.H. Lawrence was the king of innuendo—but wouldn't admit it.

D.H. Lawrence was the king of innuendo—but wouldn't admit it.

By Walker Caplan | March 2, 2021

How Leonora Carrington Used Tarot to Reach Self-Enlightenment

How Leonora Carrington Used Tarot to Reach Self-Enlightenment

Gabriel Weisz Carrington on His Mother's Quest for Mythic Revelations

By Gabriel Weisz Carrington | March 2, 2021

The Story of Pan Am’s First <br>Black Stewardesses

The Story of Pan Am’s First
Black Stewardesses

Julia Cooke on Hazel Bowie and the Struggle for Open Skies

By Julia Cooke | March 2, 2021

(Almost) Every Cultural Reference in <em>Pretend It's a City</em>, Annotated

(Almost) Every Cultural Reference in Pretend It's a City, Annotated

A Fran Lebowitz-Centric Syllabus

By Annie Berke | March 1, 2021

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