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Literary Friends to Enemies: Why Graham Greene Hated Anthony Burgess

Is Shakespeare the Ultimate Dead White Male?

An Unequal Partnership: On the Marriage of Kingsley Amis and Jane Howard

What did Shakespeare mean when he wrote "let's kill all the lawyers?"

Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

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A Christmas Carol in just six weeks.">Charles Dickens partied HARD after finishing A Christmas Carol in just six weeks.

How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

On this day in literary history, Anthony Trollope died of the giggles. (For real.)

New York Review of Books and Navigating New York City’s Literary Scene as a Young Black Writer">Darryl Pinckney on Working for the New York Review of Books and Navigating New York City’s Literary Scene as a Young Black Writer

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The Pains and Pleasures of Taking Decades to Write a Book

How Women Writers Speculated Fictional Futures Free From Patriarchal Control

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How a Group of Young Writers and Poets Revolutionized 18th-Century Literature

Drool over the personal bookplates of 18 famous writers.

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