• Biography

    Literary History

    Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?

    Sam Kelly Explores the Potential Influence of Cannabis on the Bard’s Prolific Literary Output

     
    By Sam Kelly  July 8, 2025
    Experimental Fiction

    Black Finnegan: On William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, and the Avant-Garde of the Subaltern

    By Benjamin Hale  June 23, 2025
    Food Writing

    “Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

    By Klara Feenstra  June 23, 2025
    Biography

    Warts and All: In Praise of the Unauthorized Biography

    By Brendan O’Meara  June 23, 2025
    Pen names

    How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

    By Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott  June 20, 2025
    Icons

    How Edna Lewis Exemplified the Ethos of Queerness Throughout Her Life

    By John Birdsall  June 20, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Pop Music

    Life After ABBA: One Day in London With Agnetha Fältskog

    By Jan Gradvall  June 17, 2025
    Love Affairs

    Art Imitates Life: Who Was the Real Woman Behind André Breton’s Nadja?

    By Mark Polizzoti  June 16, 2025
    In Memoriam

    “The Finch Interested Me…” In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham and the Magazine He Founded

    By Donovan Hohn  June 13, 2025
    Art and Life

    On Marina Abramović and the Radical Notion of the Third Act

    Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Long Life of Art

    By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  June 25, 2025
    Physics

    The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

    By Alec Nevala-Lee  June 11, 2025
    Black History

    To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

    By A'Lelia Bundles  June 11, 2025
    American History

    How Charles Sumner Convinced Abraham Lincoln and the Union To Take a Stand Against Slavery

    By Zaakir Tameez  June 11, 2025
    Black History

    Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country

    Arianne Edmonds on the Intellectual and Political Legacy of Her Great-Great-Grandfather, Jefferson Lewis Edmonds

    By Arianne Edmonds  June 11, 2025
    Inspiration

    Art Imitates Life: Finding Creative Freedom in the Fusion of Fiction and Biography

    By Megan Hunter  June 10, 2025
    American Poetry

    On Marianne Moore, Unexpected Celebrity Poet of Midcentury America

    By Susan Gubar  June 9, 2025
    The Hub

    Writer Edmund White has died at 85.

    By James Folta  June 4, 2025
    Sports

    Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

    Mark Kriegel on Tyson’s Unstable Childhood, Lorna Mae, and the Fighter’s Historic Obsession

    By Mark Kriegel  June 4, 2025
    Fact vs. Fiction

    Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

    By Aidan Ryan  June 4, 2025
    Sports History

    Chronicle of a Hard-Won Defeat: Steve Prefontaine’s Olympic Debut

    By Brendan O’Meara  June 2, 2025
    The Hub

    The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died.

    By Brittany Allen  May 29, 2025
    American Literature

    Bringing the War Home: How Tim O’Brien Approached the Art of Moral Consequence

    Alex Vernon on the Emergence of One of America's Early Literary Voices of the Vietnam War

    By Alex Vernon  May 27, 2025
    The Writing Life

    The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

    By Arvind Ethan David  May 23, 2025
    Queer History

    Walking Through Jose Esteban Muñoz’s New York City

    By Marcos Gonsalez  May 23, 2025
    Family Histories

    Decline and Fall of the Spinach Kings: On the Wilting of a Family Dynasty

    By John Seabrook  June 11, 2025
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