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The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

Martin Couney May Not Have Had Medical Credentials, But He Saved Thousands

By Dawn Raffel | August 3, 2018

When Wilde Met Whitman

When Wilde Met Whitman

As He Told a Friend Years Later, "The Kiss of Walt Whitman is Still on My Lips"

By Michèle Mendelssohn | July 16, 2018

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

Bombs, Bullets, and Amputated Feet, Obviously

By David Lynch | July 10, 2018

He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

Remembering the Late, Great Poet, 1928 - 2018

By Ann Patchett | June 25, 2018

Reading Through the Notes for Peter Matthiessen's Would-Be Autobiography

Reading Through the Notes for Peter Matthiessen's Would-Be Autobiography

Jeff Wheelwright on the Life and Underrated Writing of His Adventuring Uncle

By Jeff Wheelwright | June 21, 2018

The All-Too Human Cost of Appalachia's Fracking Boom

The All-Too Human Cost of Appalachia's Fracking Boom

America's Answer to Energy Scarcity Has Always Been to Dig Deeper

By Eliza Griswold | June 19, 2018

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The Treacherous Start to Mary and Percy Shelley's Marriage

The Treacherous Start to Mary and Percy Shelley's Marriage

Anxious, Impatient, and Seasick While Sailing Through a Storm

By Fiona Sampson | May 31, 2018

Where Hemingway Went to Write, After Partying in Venice

Where Hemingway Went to Write, After Partying in Venice

We Could All Use a Quiet, Rustic Island...

By Andrea Di Robilant | May 29, 2018

On the Boyhood Classmates Who Drove Proust to Write

On the Boyhood Classmates Who Drove Proust to Write

First He Was Transfixed, Then He Was... Disappointed

By Caroline Weber | May 24, 2018

Chasing an Impossible Storm

Chasing an Impossible Storm

Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras's Last Ride

By Brantley Hargrove | May 23, 2018

On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, <em>I Am a Cat</em>

On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, I Am a Cat

A Comic Evocation of the Author's Deep Pessimism about His Own Humanity

By John Nathan | May 16, 2018

How a Christmas Present Gave Harper Lee the Time to Write <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>

How a Christmas Present Gave Harper Lee the Time to Write To Kill a Mockingbird

On the Origins of an American Classic

By Joseph Crespino | May 8, 2018

On James Baldwin's Radical Writing for <em>Playboy</em> Magazine

On James Baldwin's Radical Writing for Playboy Magazine

Masculine Fantasy and the Subversive Possibilities of Androgyny

By Joseph Vogel | April 17, 2018

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