Literary History

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

Sarah Blackwood on the Lasting Insights of Edith Wharton's Classic

 
By Sarah Blackwood  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
Literary History

The Emotional Aftershocks of Alice Adams’ Most Celebrated Work

By Carol Sklenicka  January 21, 2020
Literary History

My Novel Centered on the Eliot-Hale Letters. Now, We Can Read Them

By Martha Cooley  January 14, 2020
Literary History

J.M. Barrie’s Handwritten Manuscript of Peter Pan

By Literary Hub  January 13, 2020
Literary History

Walking Through the House Where Louisa May Alcott Wrote Little Women

By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold  December 2, 2019
Literary History

On the Difficulty of Convincing Samuel Beckett of Just About Anything

By Deirdre Bair  November 11, 2019
Literary History

Mariana Enriquez on the Radical, Subversive Power of Silvina Ocampo

By Mariana Enriquez  November 6, 2019
Literary History

Chill Your Wine in John Steinbeck’s Silver Bucket

By Rebecca Rego Barry  October 21, 2019
Literary History

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

By Rebecca Onion  October 21, 2019
Literary History

Orwell’s Notes on 1984: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

By D.J. Taylor  October 18, 2019
Literary History

Why We Feel So Compelled to Make Maps of Fictional Worlds

By Lev Grossman  October 2, 2019
Literary History

Sigrid Undset’s Doomed Flâneuse is
a Cautionary Tale

By Lauren Elkin  October 2, 2019
Literary History

The Writer You’ve Never Heard of That Made My Book Possible

By Mark Haber  September 27, 2019
Literary History

My First Library Was a Library of Porn

By Brian D. Bouldrey  September 17, 2019
Literary History

The US Tour That Made Gertrude Stein a Household Name

By Roy Morris, Jr.  September 16, 2019
Literary History

The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
Darkness at Noon

By Michael Scammell  September 12, 2019
Literary History

The Many Literary Landscapes of Tokyo

By Anna Sherman  September 4, 2019
Literary History

The Fall and Rise of William Stoner

By Steve Almond  August 29, 2019
Literary History

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

By Boze Herrington  August 21, 2019
Literary History

The Very First Books Published by Some of Your Favorite Publishing Houses

By Emily Temple  August 15, 2019
Literary History

Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

By Roy Jacobsen  August 14, 2019
Literary History

The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never Wrote

By Anne Margaret Daniel  August 7, 2019
Literary History

Finally, some Proust short enough to finish. (New novellas discovered!)

By Emily Firetog  August 6, 2019
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