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More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

The Author of “Dust and Light” Shares Her Formative Influences for Using Fact in Fiction

By Andrea Barrett | February 26, 2025

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant,

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, "Unerring Stylist"

"A writer for whom nothing is alien and everything is possible"

By Hermione Lee | September 26, 2023

Rabih Alameddine Recommends Some Gay Books You Might Not Have Known Were Gay

Rabih Alameddine Recommends Some Gay Books You Might Not Have Known Were Gay

Happy Pride, Everyone

By Rabih Alameddine | June 26, 2020

Passion and Patience: On the Timeless Virtues of Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian

Passion and Patience: On the Timeless Virtues of Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian

Dave Lucas Reads Memoirs of Hadrian in Lockdown

By Dave Lucas | June 8, 2020

10 Great Works of Historical Fiction to Ease Your Thomas Cromwell Withdrawal

10 Great Works of Historical Fiction to Ease Your Thomas Cromwell Withdrawal

At Least History Isn't Going Anywhere

By Emily Temple | March 11, 2020

In Praise of the Epistolary Novel

In Praise of the Epistolary Novel

Evan Fallenberg on His Favorite Form of Literary Eavesdropping

By Evan Fallenberg | September 6, 2018

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