• Biography

    Astronauts

    First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

    By Loren Grush  September 14, 2023
    Copyright

    Did J.D. Salinger Wield Copyright as Self-Protection?

    By Olivia Rutigliano  August 30, 2023
    American Poetry

    Remembering William Stafford, Whose Poetic Region Was All the World

    By Steve Paul  August 28, 2023
    Artists

    Leonora Carrington’s Days as a Debutante and Art Student

    By Joanna Moorhead  August 22, 2023
    Nazi Germany

    “Woman, Jew, Intellectual:” How the Nazi State Saw Hannah Arendt

    By Wolfram Eilenberger  August 10, 2023
    World War I

    How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress’s Life Forever

    By Janet Wallach  August 7, 2023
    Black History

    How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

    By Christopher Cameron  July 27, 2023
    Muses

    Excavating Dora Maar: On the Afterlives of Art History’s Forgotten Women

    By Anne Boyd Rioux  July 26, 2023
    Literary History

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

    By Anne Whitehouse  July 24, 2023
    Art and Poetry

    Art For Everybody: Ann Magnuson on Her Friend, Keith Haring

    By Ann Magnuson  July 20, 2023
    Black Women's Writing

    Mikki Kendall Remembers the Indelible Work and Full Complexity of bell hooks

    By Mikki Kendall  July 20, 2023
    Writing About Disability

    Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language

    By Andrew Leland  July 18, 2023
    Read Smart

    Craig Brown on Bringing Humor to Writing About The Beatles

    By Read Smart  July 18, 2023
    Poets

    Hiding In Plain Sight: Patrick Gale on the Life and Work of Poet Charles Causley

    By Patrick Gale  July 18, 2023
    Keen On

    Talking to the Mafia About Michael Jackson, Donald Trump, and Jimmy Hoffa

    By Keen On  July 18, 2023
    Literary History

    The Complicated Afterlives of
    Roberto Bolaño

    By Aaron Shulman  July 17, 2023
    Read Smart

    James Shapiro: Shakespeare Was NOT More Than One Person

    By Read Smart  July 13, 2023
    Film History

    How Lauren Bacall Secured Her Legendary Love Story with Humphrey Bogart

    By William J. Mann  July 12, 2023
    Keen On

    Benyamin Cohen on the Cultural Ubiquity of Albert Einstein, the World’s Favorite Genius

    By Keen On  July 12, 2023
    News and Culture

    Rory Green on Her Mother, International Bestselling Novelist Jackie Collins

    By Rory Green  July 11, 2023
    Archives

    How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

    By Ebs Burnough  July 10, 2023
    The Lives of Women

    Women on the Verge: The Jazz Age Origins of Burnout

    By Marsha Gordon  July 5, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Jesse Kavadlo Puts Don DeLillo into Context

    By History of Literature  July 5, 2023
    New in Nonfiction

    10 Nonfiction Books to Read This July

    By Jonny Diamond  June 30, 2023
    Roman History

    The Making of a Bad Woman (2,000 Years Ago)

    By Honor Cargill-Martin  June 29, 2023
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