• Biography

    Letters

    On the Mundane Letters of John Keats

    By Geoffrey D. Morrison  March 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Michael G. Long on Why Jackie Robinson’s Political Legacy is at Least as Important as His Sporting One

    By Keen On  March 6, 2023
    Exploration

    The Day Explorers Finally Found One of the World’s Great Lost Shipwrecks

    By Mensun Bound  March 3, 2023
    Queer History

    Yes, Sydney, Australia in the 1960s Was the Drag Capital of the World

    By Craig Seligman  March 3, 2023
    The Hub

    Celebrity children’s books ranked from ? to ???

    By Janet Manley  March 2, 2023
    Reading

    How Karl Lagerfeld Learned to Love Literature

    By William Middleton  March 1, 2023
    Reproductive Rights

    A Piece of Whalebone, a Butcher’s Shop, a Tailor: The Makings of A Pioneer Abortionist

    By Jennifer Wright  March 1, 2023
    Poets

    Pinning Down the Cagey Emotions of Poet Amy Clampitt

    By Willard Spiegelman  February 28, 2023
    Rock and Roll

    How Bob Dylan Became a Counterculture Icon

    By Aaron J. Leonard  February 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    How a 26-Year-Old Steven Spielberg Made Jaws… and Nearly Lost His Career in the Process

    By Michael Schulman  February 24, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    James Stewart Talks Redstone Family Drama and Boardroom Backstabbing

    By Just the Right Book   February 23, 2023
    Exploration

    An Explorer Frozen in Time and a Map for the Mess of Life

    By Reid Mitenbuler  February 23, 2023
    Black History

    The Battle for the Black Soul: On the Poetic Embodiment of the Black Preacher

    By Gregory Pardlo  February 21, 2023
    Keen On

    Lynn Cullen on the Woman Who Pioneered the Polio Vaccine and Changed the World

    By Keen On  February 17, 2023
    Super Heroes

    How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

    By Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler  February 16, 2023
    American History

    How One Week in Chicago Changed Abraham Lincoln’s Life—and the Fate of the United States

    By Edward Achorn  February 16, 2023
    Love

    How to Love a Writer: On the Care and Feeding of a Creative Marriage

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  February 14, 2023
    Black History

    How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

    By Mark Whitaker  February 13, 2023
    Literary Biography

    The Coming-of-Age Tale As Societal Critique: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar at 60

    By Heather Clark  February 9, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Lives of the Wives: Carmela Ciuraru on Marriage, Writing, and Equity

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 9, 2023
    Literary History

    An Unequal Partnership: On the Marriage of Kingsley Amis and Jane Howard

    By Carmela Ciuraru  February 8, 2023
    The Hub

    You, too, can own one of Larry McMurtry’s beloved typewriters!

    By Jonny Diamond  February 7, 2023
    Hollywood

    How On the Waterfront Made Marlon Brando a Cinematic Icon

    By David Thomson  February 7, 2023
    Remembrances

    Tom Verlaine was the Strand’s Best Customer

    By Colin Groundwater  February 7, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Who Really Was Margaret Fuller Before Her Sudden Death?

    By History of Literature  February 6, 2023
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