History

Handwritten Letters from From Legendary American Artists

Willem de Kooning, Joseph Cornell, Lee Krasner, Cy Twombly, ande More

 
By Mary Savig  June 21, 2016
History

On the Anniversary of Ethel Rosenberg’s Execution

By Jillian Cantor  June 20, 2016
Conversations

Seven Ways to Hand-sell a Lost Modern Masterpiece

By Literary Hub  June 2, 2016
Conversations

When America Was On the Brink of a Second Revolution

By Clara Bingham  June 2, 2016
Feature

Recovered Memory: On Finding 200 Rolls of Lost Film

By Ron Haviv  May 30, 2016
History

The Library the Gold Rush Built

By Daniela Blei  May 23, 2016
Feature

Emerging from the Ruins of An American Dynasty

By Frances Stroh  May 20, 2016
Essay

History Never Ends, It Just Gets Retold

By Janice P. Nimura  May 17, 2016
History

Jay to Bee: Janet Frame’s Letters to William Theophilus Brown

By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 10, 2016
Essay

The Time Shakespeare Caused a Riot in New York City

By Andrew Dickson  May 10, 2016
Excerpts

The Life and Times of a True American Moral Hysteric

By Devin Leonard  May 2, 2016
History

George Plimpton, the Original Master of None

By Literary Hub  April 26, 2016
History

Shakespeare and His Stuff

By Literary Hub  April 25, 2016
Essay

How I Write History: Or, A Window Into My Crazy

By Neal Bascomb  April 19, 2016
Essay

Women in Publishing 100 Years Ago: A Historical VIDA Count

By Rachel McCarthy James  March 31, 2016
Essay

Who Can Fictionalize Slavery?

By Katy Simpson Smith  March 30, 2016
Essay

A Life in Letters: From the New Republic to Iowa to Knopf…

By Doris Grumbach  March 15, 2016
Excerpts

Washington’s Immortals

By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 10, 2016
History

The Silk Roads

By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 1, 2016
Excerpts

Henry James: Autobiographies

By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 26, 2016
Feature

Fear and Loathing in NYC: Hunter S. Thompson Goes to Town

By Arvind Dilawar  February 19, 2016
History

The Night That Sylvia Plath Met Ted Hughes

By Belinda McKeon  February 17, 2016
Excerpts

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

By Charles Simic  February 16, 2016
Excerpts

I Was The Most Wanted Man in China

By Fang Lizhi  February 11, 2016
Essay

Emotional Truths and Historical Lies in the Shadow of the Great War

By Andrea Molesini  February 1, 2016
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