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Decorating Houses With Edith Wharton: On Interior Design as Art and Literary Practice

Decorating Houses With Edith Wharton: On Interior Design as Art and Literary Practice

Emily J. Orlando Considers Another Creative Side of the Chronicler of the Gilded Age

By Emily J. Orlando | October 18, 2024

The Making of Home: On Space, Scarcity, and the Production of Diasporic Aesthetics

The Making of Home: On Space, Scarcity, and the Production of Diasporic Aesthetics

Simon Wu: “Objects were made to live multiple lives, so that our life—this life, not the next one—would be perfect.”

By Simon Wu | July 1, 2024

You can now buy E.L. Doctorow’s gorgeous Manhattan home, for just $2.1 million.

You can now buy E.L. Doctorow’s gorgeous Manhattan home, for just $2.1 million.

By Walker Caplan | May 25, 2021

Evelyn Waugh’s twelve-bedroom house—complete with party barn—is now for sale.

Evelyn Waugh’s twelve-bedroom house—complete with party barn—is now for sale.

By Walker Caplan | May 14, 2021

Windmill House, former dwelling of Arthur Miller, is finally for sale.

Windmill House, former dwelling of Arthur Miller, is finally for sale.

By Walker Caplan | May 12, 2021

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Persuasion are being sold at auction.">

Persuasion are being sold at auction.">Three houses featured in Jane Austen’s Persuasion are being sold at auction.

By Walker Caplan | November 30, 2020

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Take a virtual tour through Ursula K. Le Guin's gorgeous California home.

By Aaron Robertson | September 3, 2020

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big

By Jane Healey | March 16, 2020

9 Novels in Which Houses Have a Life of Their Own

By Melanie Hobson | September 10, 2018

A Tour of the Grandest Buildings in Literature

A Tour of the Grandest Buildings in Literature

From the Overlook to Thornfield, a Glass House, and More

By Fiona Davis | August 7, 2018

Repositories of Memory: On the Country House Novel

Repositories of Memory: On the Country House Novel

Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Tessa Hadley in Conversation

By Literary Hub | January 12, 2018

The Secret, Violent History of My Childhood Home

The Secret, Violent History of My Childhood Home

Julia Fierro on Class, Belonging, and the Meaning of Home

By Julia Fierro | June 12, 2017

When Your Characters Live Inside Your Childhood Home

When Your Characters Live Inside Your Childhood Home

Sara Schaff on Revisiting the House She Grew Up in Through Fiction

By Sara Schaff | November 9, 2016

Every House is a Haunted House

Every House is a Haunted House

Why is So Much of Horror About the Home?

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2016

30 Must-Read Poetry Debuts from 2015

30 Must-Read Poetry Debuts from 2015

A Very Good Year for Some Very Good Poets

By Adam Fitzgerald | December 8, 2015

Kathleen Alcott's Ghosts of Thanksgiving

Kathleen Alcott's Ghosts of Thanksgiving

In Search of Tradition, One House at a Time

By Kathleen Alcott | November 25, 2015