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It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer's Block
Diary Entries from Communist Czechoslovakia
By
Ludvík Vaculík
| January 29, 2020
The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks' Life in Detroit
Susan Reyburn Follows the Life of a Civil Rights Icon
By
Susan Reyburn
| January 28, 2020
Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis
Françoise Frenkel's
No Place to Lay One’s Head
Belongs in the Company of Literary Giants
By
Patrick Modiano
| January 27, 2020
The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace
Schwartz's Supporters Compared Him to Eliot, Pound, and Auden
By
Ben Mazer
| January 17, 2020
John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities
“To become a true American a white American’s identity
must partake of blackness.”
By
John F. Callahan
| January 16, 2020
Meet a Bad Man Who Became
a Truly Great Spy
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By
Owen Matthews
| December 16, 2019
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Freeman's
| December 9, 2019
The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant
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John F. Callahan
| December 6, 2019
The Unapologetic Politics
of Howard Fast
Mark Harris on the Writer Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy
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Mark Harris
| December 6, 2019
Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider
Liesl Schillinger on the French Novelist Who Wrote
Powerfully of the Immigrant Experience
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Liesl Schillinger
| December 5, 2019
On the Ambitious Beginnings of China's Influential Soong Sisters
Jung Chang Recounts Ei-Ling Soongs' First Journey to America
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Jung Chang
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Elaine Stritch's Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due
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Still Here
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Leah Rosenzweig
| December 4, 2019
On Brian Doyle's Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work
David James Duncan Remembers the Late Great Writer
Who Tried to "Stare God in the Eye"
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David James Duncan
| December 3, 2019
Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict
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Author
on
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| November 27, 2019
How Ian McKellen Almost Didn't Play Gandalf
On the Casting Intrigues Behind
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(Bowie as Lord Elrond!)
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Garry O'Connor
| November 26, 2019
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