How Weimar Berlin Inspired Christopher Isherwood’s <em>Sally Bowles</em>

How Weimar Berlin Inspired Christopher Isherwood’s Sally Bowles

Katherine Bucknell on the Tumultuous World That Made the Novella and Its Protagonist

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More Than a Muse: On Salvadoran Artist and Wife of Antoine, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

More Than a Muse: On Salvadoran Artist and Wife of Antoine, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

Gina María Balibrera Paints a Picture of the Forgotten Woman of Surrealism Who Inspired Her Novel

By Gina María Balibrera | August 23, 2024

A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North

A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North

Colin Dickey Goes All the Way to Svalbard to Read “A Woman in the Polar Night”

By Colin Dickey | August 22, 2024

Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire

Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on the Life and Legacy of the Iconic Black Feminist Poet and Activist

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs | August 20, 2024

Evan S. Connell at 100: Ever the Elusive, Surprising, and Singular Conjurer

Evan S. Connell at 100: Ever the Elusive, Surprising, and Singular Conjurer

Steve Paul Remembers a Quiet Giant of American Literature

By Steve Paul | August 16, 2024

How Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins Changed the Face of Publishing

How Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins Changed the Face of Publishing

Gill Paul on Two Trailblazing Women Who Revolutionized the Book World

By Gill Paul | August 13, 2024

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How Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Defied Victorian Relationship Conventions

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Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

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Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

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Tom Jenks Considers the Eternal Power of a Masterpiece of American Short Fiction

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How Japanese-American Scientist Eugenie Clark Spearheaded the Study of Sharks

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Jasmin Graham on the Unsung Contributions of Women of Color to Marine Biology

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Believing Sylvia Plath: How Our Culture Continues to Blame the Victims of Male Violence

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Emily Van Duyne on the Ways Misogyny Masks Itself and Slithers On, Then and Now

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From Shopping to Sex: Indexing the Life of Sylvia Plath

From Shopping to Sex: Indexing the Life of Sylvia Plath

Carl Rollyson on the Revelations and Limits of a Quantitative Exercise

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Teenage Queen: Behind the Scenes on the Set of <em>My Lady Jane</em>

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Alexis Gunderson on Bringing the Little Told Story of Lady Jane Grey to the Screen

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In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s <em>Tamerlane</em>

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Bradford Morrow on the Bibliophile’s Holy Grail, Otherwise Known as the “Black Tulip”

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