• Biography

    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
    WWI

    On W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disgraceful Treatment of Gold Star Mothers

    By Chad L. Williams  April 4, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    On the Nested Worlds of Novelist Marina Warner

    By Lucy Scholes  April 3, 2023
    In Memoriam

    Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Stephanie Marie Thornton Imagines the Lost Words Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Visionary Daughter Mary Shelley

    By Keen On  March 27, 2023
    Muses

    When the Muses Step Out of the Shadows: Reading the Women Who Enabled Greatness

    By Sophie Haydock  March 20, 2023
    Irish Literature

    The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost

    By Alexander Poots  March 17, 2023
    Environmentalism

    Daisy Hildyard on the Ancient Origins of James Lovelock, Progenitor of Gaia Theory

    By Daisy Hildyard  March 16, 2023
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