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How Benjamin Franklin’s Cold Feet Led to a Revolutionary American Invention

How Benjamin Franklin’s Cold Feet Led to a Revolutionary American Invention

Joyce E. Chaplin on the Origins of the Franklin Stove

By Joyce E. Chaplin | March 11, 2025

On Being Mentored by a Chinese Woman Writer Who Lived a Thousand Years Ago

On Being Mentored by a Chinese Woman Writer Who Lived a Thousand Years Ago

Wendy Chen Considers What Translating Li Qingzhao Taught Her About Her Own Work

By Wendy Chen | February 25, 2025

What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

Adam Plunkett on the Poet’s Key Intellectual and Literary Influences

By Adam Plunkett | February 18, 2025

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Michelle Adams on the Ongoing Legal Struggle For Educational and Racial Equality Across the United States

By Michelle Adams | January 15, 2025

What the Novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison Reveal About the Soul of America

What the Novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison Reveal About the Soul of America

Edwin Frank Considers the Roots of a Nation's Literary Reckoning

By Edwin Frank | November 19, 2024

Julie Sedivy on Amplifying the Pleasure of Language

Julie Sedivy on Amplifying the Pleasure of Language

“I feel an extra jolt of delight when I read a sentence that achieves something out of the ordinary.”

By Julie Sedivy | October 25, 2024

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