• History

    Deep Dive

    Hysteria, Witches, and The Wandering Uterus: A Brief History

    By Terri Kapsalis  April 5, 2017
    Excerpts

    History of a Disappearance

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 5, 2017
    Excerpts

    Take Heart: Shakespeare’s Drafts Were Pretty Damn Rough

    By J.P. Romney and Rebecca Romney  March 20, 2017
    Archives

    Read a (Love) Letter From Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne

    By Emily Temple  March 16, 2017
    Did you know?

    The Doctor Who Made Addicts of the Nazis

    By Norman Ohler  March 7, 2017
    Politics

    A History of Violence: Walking the Blood-Soaked Shores of Spirit Lake

    By Katie Prout  March 1, 2017
    History

    A Real-Life Fitzgerald Hero, Too True for the Jazz Age

    By Beatriz Williams  January 26, 2017
    Did you know?

    Some Things You May Not Have Known About Edith Wharton’s Dog Obsession

    By Emily Temple  January 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. on His Son’s Legacy

    By The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.  January 16, 2017
    Archives

    Classic Literary Obituaries, From Virginia Woolf to Marcel Proust

    By Emily Temple  January 13, 2017
    History

    A Long-Ago Christmas in the Most Remote Place on Earth

    By David Welky  December 20, 2016
    Feature

    On Fidel Castro’s Friendships With Literary Giants

    By Emily Temple  November 28, 2016
    Excerpts

    John Edgar Wideman: Making Sense of American Darkness

    By John Edgar Wideman  November 22, 2016
    Essay

    Finding Love at the End of History

    By Leah Kaminsky  November 17, 2016
    Essay

    In Search of the Real Woman Who Lived on the Island of the Blue Dolphins

    By Veronica Hackethal  November 16, 2016
    Feature

    A Literary Look at the Last Time the Cubs Won the World Series

    By Emily Temple  November 3, 2016
    Feature

    For Better or Worse, How Mississippi Remembers Emmett Till

    By Literary Hub  November 2, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Rise of the Cities of the Dead

    By Colin Dickey  October 31, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Riddle of the Vagina, and Other Victorian Attempts to Understand Women

    By Therese Oneill  October 27, 2016
    Feature

    Three Tales of Baseball in Honor of the World Series

    By Literary Hub  October 25, 2016
    Excerpts

    When Babe Ruth Called His Shot Against the Chicago Cubs

    By Cait Murphy  October 25, 2016
    Essay

    Edward Albee, Big in Bulgaria

    By Dimiter Kenarov  October 24, 2016
    Essay

    Postcards to a Younger, Much Better Novelist

    By Derek Palacio  October 17, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Publishing Gamble That Changed America

    By Barney Rosset  October 13, 2016
    Excerpts

    By Us, For Us: On New Orleans Bounce

    By Garnette Cadogan  October 12, 2016
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