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Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

D.J. Taylor on Cyril Connolly Shepherd of "High Brow" Literature

By D.J. Taylor | March 13, 2020

Tove Jansson Falls in Love

Tove Jansson Falls in Love

The Moomin Creator on Five Decades of Life with Tuulikki Pietilä

By Tove Jansson | March 11, 2020

Cultivating Solitude, <br>The Henry James' Way

Cultivating Solitude,
The Henry James' Way

On “the lonely celibate who has to boil his own pot.”

By Fenton Johnson | March 10, 2020

On Shirley Hazzard and the Antipodean Gaze

On Shirley Hazzard and the Antipodean Gaze

Michelle de Kretser on One of Australia's Great Writers

By Michelle de Krester | March 9, 2020

Frida Kahlo Was a Captivating Subject for Photographers

Frida Kahlo Was a Captivating Subject for Photographers

The Artist Took Photography as Seriously as Painting

By Celia Stahr | March 5, 2020

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

On Rose Pastor and the Activists of the University Settlement Society

By Adam Hochschild | March 5, 2020

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How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

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When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the
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By W. Jason Miller | February 24, 2020

Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

"He is not a witch, he is bewitched.”

By Jean Genet | February 24, 2020

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of<br> Amelia Earhart

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
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A Missing Pilot and Her Poems

By Traci Brimhall | February 21, 2020

In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

Michelle Chihara Digs Through the Didion Family's Land Records

By Michelle Chihara | February 14, 2020

Lawrence of Arabia Understood the Middle East Better Than Many Modern Leaders

Lawrence of Arabia Understood the Middle East Better Than Many Modern Leaders

Lessons to Remember from a Model Outsider

By Dale Maharidge | February 6, 2020

The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

The (Mostly Unknowable) Life of a Fraud

By Adam Sisman | February 3, 2020

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

A Day in the Life of a Jailed Writer and Human Rights Advocate

By Kaya Genç | January 31, 2020

It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer's Block

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

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