Literary History

On Writing Nora Joyce into Biographical Fiction

Nuala O’Connor Considers the Interior Life of a Literary Icon

 
By Nuala O'Connor  December 23, 2020
Literary History

When Adrienne Rich Refused The National Book Award

By Hilary Holladay  November 23, 2020
Literary History

The Night W.S. Merwin Was Stripped Naked by a Charismatic Buddhist Leader

By Emily Temple  September 30, 2020
Literary History

Does Every Country Need to Have Its Own Sylvia Plath?

By Rhian Sasseen  August 17, 2020
Literary History

Reading the First Drafts of
Anna Karenina

By Bob Blaisdell  August 6, 2020
Literary History

The Literary Life of Pessoa’s Alter Ego

By Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari  July 29, 2020
Literary History

André Aciman Follows Literary Ghosts in St. Petersburg

By André Aciman  July 9, 2020
Literary History

Remembering Bo Huston, Who Bore Witness to the Peak of the AIDS Crisis

By John McIntyre  June 26, 2020
Literary History

Robert Walser and Jean Genet’s Dreams, Solitude, and Mundane Things

By Moyra Davey  June 17, 2020
Literary History

How Do You Write About a Woman Who Loathed the Spotlight?

By Alice Miller  June 11, 2020
Literary History

The Letter That Changed Emily Dickinson’s Life

By Martha Ackmann  May 26, 2020
Literary History

The Case of Oscar Wilde’s Mistaken Identity in Naples

By Renato Miracco  May 21, 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 History

Why Do Some Writers Burn Their Work?

By Alex George  May 15, 2020
Literary History

When “Serious” Writers Write Books For Kids

By Rebecca Rego Barry  April 17, 2020
Literary History

How Plants Helped Colette Satisfy an Insatiable Desire

By Damon Young  April 13, 2020
Literary History

Moby-Dick’s Powerful Message for the Atomic Age

By Gilbert Wilson  April 8, 2020
Literary History

In a Quiet London Enclave, Five Iconic Women Writers Forged a Home

By Francesca Wade  April 8, 2020
Literary History

An Exhibition on Gabriel García Márquez’s Long Road to Becoming a Writer

By Lance Richardson  April 6, 2020
Literary History

How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

By Emily Temple  March 17, 2020
Literary History

Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

By D.J. Taylor  March 13, 2020
Literary History

What Do We Do with The Age of Innocence in 2020?

By Sarah Blackwood  March 3, 2020
Literary History

A Glimpse Inside the Best Summer of Emily Dickinson’s Life

By Martha Ackmann  February 26, 2020
Literary History

Was ‘The Burning’ the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
To Write?

By Susan V. Donaldson  February 4, 2020
Literary History

Jack London’s Call to Service and Humanism

By Jack London  January 30, 2020
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