• Biography

    Summer reading

    25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2023
    Literary Legends

    The Time Arthur Conan Doyle Got Pranked So Hard He Claimed Fairies Exist

    By Katie Spalding  May 18, 2023
    Chronic Illness

    On the Black and White Paroxysms of Augustine Gleizes, Celebrity Patient

    By Emily Wells  May 16, 2023
    Shakespeare

    Doubting Shakespeare’s Identity Isn’t a Conspiracy Theory

    By Elizabeth Winkler  May 15, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

    By Sam Leith  May 12, 2023
    Close Readings

    The Power of the Unsaid: John N. Maclean on Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River

    By John N. Maclean  May 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Biographer discovers that Martin Luther King’s harshest criticism of Malcolm X was made up.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 10, 2023
    Catholicism

    Who Was the Only Sitting President to Contribute to a Literary Journal?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 10, 2023
    The History of Literature

    How Byron’s Flamboyant Life Shaped His Poetry

    By History of Literature  May 8, 2023
    Keen On

    Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans on Tony Hsieh and Silicon Valley’s Happiness Myth

    By Keen On  May 5, 2023
    News and Culture

    How Horseback Riding Helped Barbara Stanwyck Rise Above Hollywood Misogyny

    By Catherine Russell  May 4, 2023
    Keen On

    Shannon McKenna Schmidt on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Remarkable Heroism During WWII

    By Keen On  May 3, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    David Grann: Diving Into History, the Trials of a Sea Voyage, and Sailing the Gulf of Pain

    By The Literary Life  April 28, 2023
    What to Watch

    In Judy Blume Forever, Blume’s Refreshing Candor Applies to Herself

    By Kavita Das  April 17, 2023
    Literary Biography

    What Hemingway Means in the 21st Century

    By David Barnes  April 17, 2023
    Australian Literature

    How Spiritualism Influenced a Divisive But Brilliant Australian Novelist

    By Cameron Hurst  April 17, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania

    By The Literary Life  April 14, 2023
    Feminist History

    A Feminist Before Feminism: A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston

    By Emily Franklin  April 13, 2023
    Cocktails

    Cocktails in Honor of Two Literary Greats: Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston

    By Jennifer Croll  April 13, 2023
    Playwrights

    How a Young Sam Shepard Vowed to Never Become His Father

    By Robert Greenfield  April 11, 2023
    Irish History

    When the IRA Arrived in Brighton to Blow Up Margaret Thatcher, Her Cabinet, and the Grand Hotel

    By Rory Carroll  April 7, 2023
    Art Criticism

    How Yayoi Kusama Transformed Her Terrors Into Art

    By Will Gompertz  April 5, 2023
    Keen On

    Ralph White on His Wartime Efforts to Rescue Vietnamese Civilians

    By Keen On  April 5, 2023
    Keen On

    Sally Bedell Smith on the 20th-Century Royal Marriage That Saved the British Monarchy

    By Keen On  April 4, 2023
    Lit Century

    On Songs for Drella and the Paradox of Andy Warhol’s Art

    By Lit Century   April 4, 2023
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