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On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

Nicholas McDowell Navigates Heaven, Hell, and Everything In-Between

By Nicholas McDowell | October 29, 2020

How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain's Honor Code

How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain's Honor Code

Mark Salter in Conversation with Roxanne Coady on the Just the Right Book Podcast

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On Sylvia Plath's Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists' Colony

On Sylvia Plath's Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists' Colony

Good Things Happen When Writers Can Escape the World's Demands

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The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, October Edition

Of Malcolm X, Sylvia Plath, Abraham Lincoln, and more

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Hiroko Oyamada Wrote Her First Book, <em>The Factory</em>, in the Factory Where She Worked

Hiroko Oyamada Wrote Her First Book, The Factory, in the Factory Where She Worked

David Boyd on a Writer Who Follows the Weirdness

By David Boyd | October 23, 2020

How Audre Lorde's Experience of Breast Cancer Fortified Her Revolutionary Politics

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How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

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On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People's Lives

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Reading the Travelogues of Percy Fawcett, Explorer of the Lost City of Z

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The Shape of His Stories: In Praise of Edward P. Jones

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A Conversion of Suffering: At the Intersection of Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Paul Celan

A Conversion of Suffering: At the Intersection of Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Paul Celan

Jamieson Webster Analyzes the Prose of a Famous Poet

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The lives of Stephen Hawking, Toussaint Louverture, Adolf Hitler, and more

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Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

In Praise of an Artist and Writer Taken Too Soon

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