September 16 – 20, 2019
- Rimbaud tourism is a cottage industry in the poet’s hometown of Charleville-Mézières.
- A guide to the decades-long familial dispute over John Steinbeck’s estate.
- The US government has filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden,
- On the writing workshop boom.
- Adam Wilson on the Golden Age of Television, the Age of Peak TV, and you.
- Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), son of Nathaniel, on his father’s “luminous” writing room and fabled mahogany desk.
History
Cities
Walking with the Ghosts of Black
Los Angeles
Ismail Muhammad: "You can’t disentangle blackness and California."
By Ismail Muhammad
September 20, 2019
Hysteria
In Search of Hysteria: The Man Who Thought He Could Define Madness
On Jean-Martin Charcot, Dark Star of 19th-Century Neurology
By Allan H. Ropper and Brian Burrell
September 20, 2019
Literary History
The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
Darkness at Noon
Michael Scammell on the Eternal Totalitarian Truths of Arthur Koestler's Classic
By Michael Scammell
September 12, 2019
Economics
From Wall Street to Chicago’s South Side: When Global Economics Make Local Progress Nearly Impossible
Nicholas Lemann on the Community Activism of Earl Johnson
By Nicholas Lemann
September 11, 2019
Criticism
On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era
A Close Reading of Christie's 80th book, Passenger to Frankfurt, by Slavoj Žižek
By Slavoj Žižek
September 9, 2019
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