Books Essay
Patience, Practice, Perseverance
How Octavia E. Butler became a writer
by Lynell George | Thursday, September 14, 2023
Will the Real Vergil Please Stand Up?
Making sense of the life of a poet about whom we know so little
by Sarah Ruden | Thursday, August 17, 2023
The Friend Zone
Mary Wollstonecraft’s ideas on what makes a marriage tick were downright radical for their time
by Robert Zaretsky | Sunday, February 19, 2023
Declassified
How genre-bending tales of espionage emerged from a childhood of pain, anger, and deception
by James Gibney | Thursday, December 08, 2022
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré ·
Freedom Tales
Long before the contentious school board fights of today, Lydia Maria Child tried to help America’s children understand their country’s racial transgressions
by Lydia Moland | Monday, September 19, 2022
Dissident Lit
Vladimir Nabokov and the novel that nourished the souls of a generation of would-be revolutionaries
by Richard Roper | Thursday, September 01, 2022
She Was the Toast of the World
The dramas and diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Sandra M. Gilbert | Wednesday, June 01, 2022
The Birth of the Egghead Paperback
How one very young man changed the course of publishing and intellectual life in America
by Mark LaFlaur | Saturday, May 07, 2022
At the Corner of Byron and Shelley
Poetry and philhellenism at the Greek bicentennial
by A. E. Stallings | Thursday, September 16, 2021
Remembering Brad
What a stroke of luck when some of your favorite books were written by one of your dearest friends
by David Gessner | Wednesday, June 02, 2021
