Write Like a Man by Ronnie Grinberg
/This scholarly consideration of both ethnic identity and gender ideology shines new light on a midcentury American intellectual movement.
Read MoreAn Arts & Literature Review
This scholarly consideration of both ethnic identity and gender ideology shines new light on a midcentury American intellectual movement.
Read MoreAt a time when all eyes are on Gaza, a scholar considers different ways Jews consider God, religious observance, and the state of Israel.
Read More“The Way I read a Letter’s—this—”
Read MoreUsing newly available sources, Mary V. Dearborn explores the complicated life of a brilliant writer of Southern Gothic fiction.
Read MoreA slim new biography of American novelist Willa Cather, just in time for her 150th birthday.
Read MoreA meditation on witchcraft, memory, and identity.
Read MoreA philosopher considers how George Eliot wrote about—and experienced—marriage.
Read MoreThis extraordinary collection of stories considers the impact of injustice based on race and gender oppression, the shifting meanings of history, and the complex emotions of grief.
Read MoreA sparkling new one-volume biography of Graham Greene considers not only Greene’s novels but his work on behalf of human rights violations around the world, his struggles with faith, and his subtle yearning for joy.
Read MoreAn author considers why the words of William Shakespeare continue to hold such relevance even in today’s difficult times—for us and for himself.
Read MoreInstead of recounting the story of a Victorian sentimentalist or a benevolent social critic, A. N. Wilson points to the dark side of Charles Dickens.
Read MoreA critic and journalist considers how a lifetime of experience has opened her eyes to new meanings in old books.
Read MoreA graceful and deeply introspective memoir written by a woman who reads and rereads Jane Austen to help her confront the changes occurring in her own life, and learns that her personal experiences give her a new lens to explore the meaning of Austen’s novels.
Read MoreThe charming memoir of a fictional character and her anonymous creator.
Read MoreA debut collection of essays exploring the places where two worlds touch.
Read MoreWhile looking for the rooms of their own that Virginia Woolf argued all women writers needed, a group of female artists and scholars in early-1960s created their own Bloomsbury and prefigured the beginnings of second-wave feminism.
Read MoreA genre-bending work of an author researching Carson McCullers and finding herself.
Read MoreA contemporary poet discovers he “contains multitudes”--and pairs his intimate memoir with a close reading of the work of Walt Whitman.
Read MoreA new biography of Emily Dickinson—told in ten episodes which “tell it slant.”
Read MoreA Jewish immigrant and factory worker catapults to national prominence in the first decade of the twentieth century--partly because of her charismatic leadership in radical organizations such as the Socialist party, and partly because of her marriage to a scion of one of the wealthiest families in the United States.
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