• Biography

    Poets

    How W.H. Auden Made Austria His Adopted Home

    Michael O'Sullivan Follows the Famed British-American Poet Across Europe

     
    By Michael O’Sullivan  October 19, 2023
    Introduction

    Hilary Mantel Loved Newspapers and Other Insights From Her Longtime Editor

    By Nicholas Pearson  October 18, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Writing Process

    By Arwen Curry  October 11, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

    By Patrick Weil  October 9, 2023
    Craft

    Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

    By Anne Eekhout  October 5, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Characters of Color

    By Arwen Curry  October 4, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Ballet

    How Alexei Ratmansky Brought A New Kind of Ballet to America

    By Marina Harss  October 3, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Creating the World of Earthsea

    By Arwen Curry  September 27, 2023
    Writing Process

    “To Be A Writer, You Must Write”: How Joan Didion Became Joan Didion

    By Evelyn McDonnell  September 26, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing and Parenting with Her Husband, Charles

    “All this is completely contingent upon the fact that we brought up the kids together.”

    By Arwen Curry  October 18, 2023
    Activism

    How Bayard Rustin Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nonviolent Activism

    By Jonathan Eig  September 25, 2023
    Nature

    How America’s Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

    By Tiya Miles  September 21, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing Fantasy as a Young Girl

    By Arwen Curry  September 20, 2023
    Novelists

    Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

    Tracy Daugherty on the Chronicler of the American West

    By Tracy Daugherty  September 18, 2023
    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

    Joanna Moorhead on the Artist's Teenage Years and Relationship with Max Ernst

    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

    Anne Boyd Rioux Considers How We Tell the Stories of Picasso’s Mistresses

    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
    Craft

    Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

    By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
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