History

Kafka Was a Terrible Boyfriend

Read Franz Kafka's "Love Letters" to Felice Bauer

 
By Eleanor Bass  February 12, 2018
Excerpts

Capturing the Artists, Hustlers, and Junkies of 1960s Pittsburgh

By Mark Whitaker  February 1, 2018
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On the Death of JFK and the Birth of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”

By Joshua Zeitz  February 1, 2018
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During World War II, Literature Reigned Supreme

By George Hutchinson  January 26, 2018
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How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

By Justin Spring  January 18, 2018
Essay

Charles Dickens Had Serious Beef with America and Its Bad Manners

By Samantha Silva  December 21, 2017
History

How Frances Marion and Mary Pickford Conquered Hollywood

By Melanie Benjamin  December 13, 2017
Essay

The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

By Peter Wortsman  December 5, 2017
Graphic Novel

A Virtuoso Graphic Novel, Painted While in Hiding From the Nazis

By Literary Hub  December 1, 2017
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SILENCE = DEATH: How an Iconic Protest Poster Came Into Being

By Avram Finkelstein  December 1, 2017
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From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

By Christopher Grobe  November 9, 2017
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Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization

By Martin Puchner  November 2, 2017
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Against the “Melting Pot” Metaphor

By Mike Wallace  October 30, 2017
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The Secret Literary History of Some of Your Favorite Colors

By Kassia St. Clair  October 27, 2017
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Uncovering the History of Slavery in Detroit

By Tiya Miles  October 27, 2017
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The Enslaved Man Who Escaped George Washington—Twice

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  October 24, 2017
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When the French Invaded Hanoi, My Brothers Stayed Behind

By Mai Elliott  October 20, 2017
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On the Literary Wheelings and Dealings of Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain

By Ron Chernow  October 17, 2017
Biography

Mark Twain, Cocaine Kingpin?

By Alan Pell Crawford  October 16, 2017
History

A Tale of Two Sylvias: On the Letters Cover Controversy

By Nichole LeFebvre  October 3, 2017
History

Returning Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to the Skies

By Douglas R. Dechow and Anna Leahy  September 26, 2017
History

Fake News and the Rise of Fascism in the 1920s

By Philip Ó Ceallaigh  September 14, 2017
History

The Deadliest Weapon of War That Was Never Actually Used

By Jennet Conant  September 13, 2017
History

The Worst White House Kitchen in History

By Laura Shapiro  July 25, 2017
History

Baldwin vs. Buckley: A Debate We Shouldn’t Need, As Important As Ever

By Gabrielle Bellot  July 20, 2017
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