• Biography

    What to Watch

    How the Publicity Campaign for Killers of the Flower Moon Recalls Rosebud Yellow Robe’s 1950 Hollywood Tour

    By Paul Morton  November 20, 2023
    Design

    The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

    By Robert von Goeben  November 20, 2023
    Craft

    Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters

    By Benjamin Moser  November 20, 2023
    Black Feminism

    How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art

    By Courtney Thorsson  November 17, 2023
    Legacies

    What Stig Dagerman’s Typewriter Meant to Him, His Descendants, and His Fans

    By Diego Courchay  November 16, 2023
    Jewish Literature

    How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

    By David Stromberg  November 16, 2023
    American Literature

    Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

    By Benjamin Taylor  November 15, 2023
    Willa Cather

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine in Praise of Willa Cather and the American Southwest

    By Kali Fajardo-Anstine  November 14, 2023
    Shakespeare's First Folio

    The 400th Anniversary: Look Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Jane Austen

    How American Critics Originated Jane Austen Scholarship

    By Juliette Wells  November 6, 2023
    Long Lost Writers

    Everything You Need to Know About Groundbreaking Queer Feminist Science Fiction Writer Joanna Russ

    By Jon Michaud  November 3, 2023
    Early Russian Literature

    How a 17th Century Priest Invented the Russian Novel

    By Irina Zhorov  November 1, 2023
    Espionage

    Spying is Lying: How David Cornwell Became John Le Carré

    By Adam Sisman  October 30, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    The Transcendental Genius of George Balanchine’s Ballet

    By Jennifer Homans  October 27, 2023
    Poets

    How W.H. Auden Made Austria His Adopted Home

    By Michael O’Sullivan  October 19, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing and Parenting with Her Husband, Charles

    By Arwen Curry  October 18, 2023
    Introduction

    Hilary Mantel Loved Newspapers and Other Insights From Her Longtime Editor

    By Nicholas Pearson  October 18, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Writing Process

    By Arwen Curry  October 11, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

    By Patrick Weil  October 9, 2023
    Craft

    Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

    By Anne Eekhout  October 5, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Characters of Color

    By Arwen Curry  October 4, 2023
    Ballet

    How Alexei Ratmansky Brought A New Kind of Ballet to America

    By Marina Harss  October 3, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Creating the World of Earthsea

    By Arwen Curry  September 27, 2023
    Writing Process

    “To Be A Writer, You Must Write”: How Joan Didion Became Joan Didion

    By Evelyn McDonnell  September 26, 2023
    Craft

    Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

    By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
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