What T.S. Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale Reveal About the Poet’s Romantic Past

What T.S. Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale Reveal About the Poet’s Romantic Past

Sara Fitzgerald on Unrequited Love and a Recently Declassified Epistolary Correspondence

By Sara Fitzgerald | September 6, 2024

The spiciest takeaways from Tina Brown’s <em> Vanity Fair Diaries. </em>

The spiciest takeaways from Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diaries.

By Brittany Allen | August 27, 2024

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

By Katherine Bucknell | August 26, 2024

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

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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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Kate Weinberg Finds Literary Inspiration in Romeo and Juliet’s Original Creator

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A Century of James Baldwin

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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

By Jasmin Graham | July 18, 2024

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

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Carl Rollyson on the Revelations and Limits of a Quantitative Exercise

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