Literary History

Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets’ Brawl of ‘68

Nick Ripatrazone Recounts Jim Harrison’s Brief Tenure in the Halls of Academia

 
By Nick Ripatrazone  November 28, 2023
Literary History

How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov’s Lolita from Being Published

By Thomas Harding  August 29, 2023
Literary History

Poe vs. Himself: On the Writer’s One-Sided War with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By Anne Whitehouse  July 24, 2023
Literary History

The Complicated Afterlives of
Roberto Bolaño

By Aaron Shulman  July 17, 2023
Literary History

Literary Friends to Enemies: Why Graham Greene Hated Anthony Burgess

By Michael Mewshaw  June 9, 2023
Literary History

Of Muromancy and Bruno Schulz: Uncovering Literary History in Western Ukraine

By Benjamin Balint  April 11, 2023
Literary History

An Unequal Partnership: On the Marriage of Kingsley Amis and Jane Howard

By Carmela Ciuraru  February 8, 2023
Literary History

The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

By Richard Bradford  January 17, 2023
Literary History

How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

By Nino Strachey  December 15, 2022
Literary History

Amusing, Disturbing, Delightful: Celebrating Jean Stafford

By Mary Gordon  November 30, 2022
Literary History

Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

By Paul Lafargue  November 28, 2022
Literary History

How Virginia Woolf Shunned—and Then Embraced—T.S. Eliot

By Lyndall Gordon  November 23, 2022
Literary History

What Don Quixote Reveals About an Empire At Its Peak

By Giles Tremlett  September 27, 2022
Literary History

“I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure.” When James Baldwin Went to Fire Island

By Jack Parlett  June 14, 2022
Literary History

James Patterson Remembers the Time James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

By James Patterson  June 8, 2022
Literary History

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

By Melissa Homestead  May 18, 2022
Literary History

On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

By Katie Bennett  April 25, 2022
Literary History

How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

By Dominic Green  April 21, 2022
Literary History

Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

By Taylor Brown  April 21, 2022
Literary History

Learning from the Work Muriel Rukeyser Left Unfinished

By Rowena Kennedy-Epstein  April 14, 2022
Literary History

Writer on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Time Philip Roth Lied to Me

By Barbara Shulgasser-Parker  April 7, 2022
Literary History

Anton Chekhov’s Beloved Summer Home in Ukraine is Under Threat

By Alison Anderson  March 29, 2022
Literary History

On the Centenary of Jack Kerouac’s Birth, Rarely Seen Archival Material from His Publisher

By Literary Hub  March 11, 2022
Literary History

Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst  March 1, 2022
Literary History

Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”

By Jeffrey C. Stewart  January 18, 2022
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