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How Do You Write About a Woman Who Loathed the Spotlight?

How Do You Write About a Woman Who Loathed the Spotlight?

Alice Miller on Georgie Hyde-Lees, Who Was Married to a Famous Irish Poet

By Alice Miller | June 11, 2020

On the Radical Afterlives of William Wordsworth

On the Radical Afterlives of William Wordsworth

A Poet Who Inspired a Generation of Naturalists and Artists

By Jonathan Bate | June 10, 2020

On the Time China's Leader Deng Xiaoping Went to a Rodeo in Texas

On the Time China's Leader Deng Xiaoping Went to a Rodeo in Texas

Michael Schuman on the Communist Leader's American Campaign

By Michael Schuman | June 10, 2020

The Making of an Indigenous Land Activist

The Making of an Indigenous Land Activist

Nina Lakhani on the Late Berta Cáceres

By Nina Lakhani | June 8, 2020

Editing Larry Kramer, a Man Larger than Life

Editing Larry Kramer, a Man Larger than Life

Helen Eisenbach on The Normal Heart

By Helen Eisenbach | June 1, 2020

On the Untold Talent of Dora Maar, More Than a Muse of Picasso

On the Untold Talent of Dora Maar, More Than a Muse of Picasso

In Search of "The Weeping Woman"

By Brigitte Benkemoun | May 29, 2020

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John Barth Deserves a Wider Audience

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By Lauren Francis-Sharma | May 22, 2020

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Edmund White on Curzio Malaparte's Oblong Visions of the World

By Edmund White | May 20, 2020

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

On Mabel Stark, a Big Cat Trainer Ahead of Her Time

By Robert Hough | May 20, 2020

Even in His Retirement, Philip Roth Wrote Thousands of Pages

Even in His Retirement, Philip Roth Wrote Thousands of Pages

Benjamin Taylor on Stoicism and Scandal in the Life of
an American Icon

By Benjamin Taylor | May 19, 2020

Defiant and Unsinkable: <br>The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Defiant and Unsinkable:
The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Olivia Gatwood on the Poet's Strength and Progressivism

By Olivia Gatwood | May 19, 2020

Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland's Eastern Coast

Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland's Eastern Coast

A. Kendra Greene Gathers the History of a Life

By A. Kendra Greene | May 15, 2020

Wayne Koestenbaum Considers Incense, Irish Spring, and, Yes, Some Other Smells

Wayne Koestenbaum Considers Incense, Irish Spring, and, Yes, Some Other Smells

(And, Also, How Montaigne's Ideas Have Left Their Mark)

By Wayne Koestenbaum | May 13, 2020

The Unlikely Optimism of Viktor Frankl

The Unlikely Optimism of Viktor Frankl

The Concentration Camp Survivor Advocated a New Kind of Therapy

By Franz Vesely | May 11, 2020

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