“A clear voice tends to be contagious.” Biography of X author Catherine Lacey on the mysteries of influence
Mark Osteen on the apocalyptic satire and historical panorama of Don DeLillo
Back to the Future Is Female!
The Forest Cathedral, an environmental adventure where you play as Rachel Carson
Lisa Yaszek on “the watershed moment” of 1970s feminist science fiction
Forthcoming: Fall 2023
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: David Waldstreicher on a revolutionary poet
David W. Blight on Frederick Douglass, “prose poet of American democracy”
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom with David W. Blight
Kevin Maloney: learning to dress up tragedy in fiction and “serve it to the reader in the form of dark comedy”
Book Madness author Denise Gigante on the obsessive 19th-century bibliomaniacs who “lived in and through books”
Roads not taken: Andrew H. Miller discusses On Not Being Someone Else
Marisa Crane: five works that inspired them to create “a complex dystopian world that runs on people’s shame”
Grace Paley, “The Loudest Voice”
“A forceful style, an urgent style”: Norman Mailer at 100
Highlights from Ordinary Heroes: Bruce Catton’s Civil War Masterpiece
