The Problem of Thinking Too Much (2002)

Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson's View of Reality Came to Be

Auden's Island

An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

How Should Debut Novelists Measure Success?

What is considered ‘moderate drinking’?

James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist

Adventures with Jean

Others

Historical Fiction Redefined the Literary Canon

Don't Take Advice from a Habsburg

Against Rereading

The Race for Lambeth Palace

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Anger over sale of George Orwell archive

From McMurdo Sound to Flanders Fields

The Phantoms Haunting History

Anna O.: The woman behind Freud's first case study

The Leopold and Loeb case, a century Later

Can men live without war? (1956)

How to live with dying (2020)

Martin Amis and the pursuit of pleasure

Don't be terrified of Pale Fire

The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Music vs. Lyrics

The Death of a Mnemonist

'I remember Paul Auster': a tribute by Jonathan Lethem to his friend

Art and Memory

Rare editions of Pushkin are vanishing from libraries around Europe

Camaraderie between two soldier poets

How Penelope Fitzgerald became a late blooming novelist

On the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, two new books

New edition of Emily Dickinson's letters upends the myth of her reclusive genius

Orwell’s Escape

Beginners," Edited: The transformation of a Raymond Carver classic (2007)

When William met Sigmund (2010)

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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun

Gabriel García Márquez Wanted to Destroy His Last Novel. It's Being Published

Oneirocritica

The Long, Surprising Legacy of the Hopkinsville Goblins

Tales of Life: The magic of reading and rereading Bernard Malamud

Mary Gaitskill Posts Her Drafts

Lithographs from Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn's Java-Album (1854)

Dipping into the Most Stunning Hot Springs

The Twins Obsession

A Whale of a Time

Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot's Arctic Photographs (Ca. 1881)

Trip the Light Fantastic

Lanark: A Life in Four Books

Sometimes a Little Bullshit Is Fine: A Conversation with Charles Simic

Postcards from Elizabeth Bishop

Am I one of the last living relatives of Bruno Schulz?

The Death of Caspar Hauser

The Quest for Cather

The Norway Model: How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse

Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets' Brawl of '68

The Frog That Couldn't Jump

Cliché-Verre and Friendship in 19th-Century France

Edmund of Abingdon's Dream Job

Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

Camus on Tour

The Example of Seamus Heaney

Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

Go in the Devil's Name: When Isobel Gowdie Confessed to Being a Witch

True to form: Media and data technologies of self-inscription

Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation

Conglomeration changed the publishing industry and American literature

Japan’s silent movie culture is still going

Taking the Plunge: The history and context of Venice’s annual Wedding to the Sea

Ken Follett Says Readers Still Like Epic Books

On the pope’s waning political influence in Mussolini’s Italy

The Bloomsbury Group is back in Vogue

Looking for Virginia Woolf’s Diaries

Prosperity and Precarity in Imperial Russia's Long Nineteenth Century

Butterflies (1948)

A lost Edith Wharton play debuts on stage

In This Essay I Will: On Distraction

The Lawn Is Resting: A Visit to Balzac’s House

Ahead of Time: On Poetry and Mourning

Legends of Lizzie (1933)

This Hummus Holds Up After 800 Years

The life, death, and afterlife of literary fiction

Typesetting Rare Chinese Characters in LATEX (2003) [pdf]

Japanese words of Portuguese origin

Ornamental Hermits Were 18th-Century England’s Must-Have Garden Accessory

Hannie Schaft, resistance fighter during World War II

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, a great Russian writer of the nineteenth century

Alamut (Bartol Novel)

We Took Cocaine Out of Soda (2013)

For an Inch of Blue Sea

The last days of Berlin’s gas streetlamps

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Kings Grew Pale

Children's Games (Bruegel)

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History

Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami