• The History of Literature

    The History of Literature

    Laura Marsh on the Enduring Appeal of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair

    By History of Literature  August 23, 2021
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    The Story of Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Rediscovered “Miss Grief”

    By History of Literature  August 16, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Did Henry James Sink Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Career?

    By History of Literature  August 9, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Life and Works of Jack Kerouac, “King of the Beats”

    By History of Literature  August 2, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Meg Tilly on the Crossover Between Acting in Thrillers and Writing Them

    By History of Literature  July 26, 2021
    The History of Literature

    A. Natasha Joukovsky on Oscar Wilde, Ovid, and the Myth of Narcissus

    By History of Literature  July 19, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Paintings in Literature: A Conversation with German Artist Charlie Stein

    By History of Literature  July 12, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Claudia Laitano on the Life and Legacy of Machado de Assis

    By History of Literature  July 6, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Remembering Katherine Mansfield, the Only Writer Virginia Woolf (Allegedly) Ever Envied

    By History of Literature  June 28, 2021
    The History of Literature

    The Top 10 Things to Love About Hamlet

    By History of Literature  June 21, 2021
    The History of Literature

    How Middlemarch Helped Yang Huang Break Free from a History of Censorship

    By History of Literature  June 14, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Storied Life of Miguel de Cervantes and His Greatest Creation, Don Quixote

    By History of Literature  June 7, 2021
    The History of Literature

    How Fascism, Exile, and Tragedy Shaped Natalia Ginzburg’s Career

    By History of Literature  June 1, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the the Ultimate Enfant Terrible of Poetry, Arthur Rimbaud

    By History of Literature  May 24, 2021
    The History of Literature

    What Can We Still Take from Philip Larkin?

    By History of Literature  May 17, 2021
    The History of Literature

    When Ralph Ellison Experienced a Forty-Year Writing Block

    By History of Literature  May 10, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On Salman Rushdie’s Devotion to the Art of Fiction

    By History of Literature  May 3, 2021
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    How Venice Invented the World

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   May 3, 2021
    The History of Literature

    How Djuna Barnes Joined the Lost Generation

    By History of Literature  April 26, 2021
    The History of Literature

    What It’s Like to Read Thucydides in 2021

    By History of Literature  April 19, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Five Ways to Read Henry James

    By History of Literature  April 12, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Revisiting the Work of Frances Burney, “Mother of English Fiction”

    By History of Literature  April 5, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Reckoning with Nabokov’s Classic, Controversial Lolita

    By History of Literature  March 29, 2021
    The History of Literature

    In Praise of “Bookish Broad” Willa Cather

    By History of Literature  March 22, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On Gabriel García Márquez’s Search for Truth in Nostalgia

    By History of Literature  March 15, 2021
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