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Here’s a rare recording of Raymond Carver reading one of his best-known stories.

By Corinne Segal  May 22, 2020
Freeman's

Letters of War, and the End of Youth

By Claire Messud  May 22, 2020
Historical Fiction

Lauren Francis-Sharma:
‘What if the Facts Aren’t the Facts at All?’

By Lauren Francis-Sharma  May 22, 2020
Journalism

How the Black Press Battled Military Discrimination and Won

By Dan C. Goldberg  May 22, 2020
The Hub

A murderess, a black mass, a scandalous literary salon: Welcome to Paris in 1920.

By Corinne Segal  May 21, 2020
Fascism

On the Revisionist Histories at the Heart of Fascism and Populism

By Federico Finchelstein  May 21, 2020
Immigration

Travels with Barbie, From Tehran to Paris to New York

By Porochista Khakpour  May 21, 2020
Literary History

The Case of Oscar Wilde’s Mistaken Identity in Naples

By Renato Miracco  May 21, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Great Plagues Always Hit Workers the Hardest

By Michael Robinson  May 20, 2020
Fascism

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

By Edmund White  May 20, 2020
Animals

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

By Robert Hough  May 20, 2020
On Race

The Only Successful Coup in the US Began as a Campaign to Curb Black Voting Rights

By Lawrence Goldstone  May 20, 2020
Anniversaries

One of Oscar Wilde’s last stops in England before exile was a bookstore.

By Aaron Robertson  May 19, 2020
Literary History

On the horribly awkward night James Joyce met Marcel Proust. (I still crave literary parties.)

By Jonny Diamond  May 19, 2020
Literary Community

The Creative Communities That Changed Literature Forever

By Maggie Doherty  May 19, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

How E.M. Forster’s Only Foray Into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing

By Gabrielle Bellot  May 18, 2020
Poets

On the City of Florence’s Struggle to Get Back Dante’s Body

By Guy P. Raffa  May 18, 2020
Media

How Energy, Chaos, and a Flair for Entertainment Created Nightly News

By Lisa Napoli  May 18, 2020
Literary History

Why Do Some Writers Burn Their Work?

By Alex George  May 15, 2020
Education

Why Sesame Street Was a Revolutionary Force for Children’s Television

By David Kamp  May 15, 2020
The Cold War

Jazz, Jeans, and Movie Stars: Joseph Brodsky on Glimpsing the West
From Afar

By Joseph Brodsky  May 14, 2020
California

On Didion, The Dead, and the Dawn of a California Arts Revolution

By Jim Newton  May 14, 2020
#MeToo

What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man?

By Jay Gabler  May 14, 2020
Economics

How Rogue Traders Make a Fortune on Volatile Markets

By Liam Vaughan  May 13, 2020
The Hub

Tiny book YouTube is the most soothing place on the internet.

By Corinne Segal  May 12, 2020
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