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For any writer, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge brings moments of painful recognition at every turn. Richard Holmes’s magisterial biography of Coleridge is replete with examples of the Romantic...

Often I wonder why anyone ever reads anything that’s not informative. Poetry is usually not cool animal facts, it rarely explains the economy to us, let alone how to replace...

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Anthony Madrid considers Gertrude Stein and Wittgenstein in a new installment of his correspondence at the Paris Review Daily.

Read a selection from Roy Morris Jr.'s book, Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend (John Hopkins University Press, 2019), at Literary Hub. Morris Jr.'s new volume narrates Stein and Toklas's...

Karin Roffman writes about John Ashbery's arrival in Paris nine years after the death of Gertrude Stein, and the writer's immense affect on his work, at the Yale Review.

Writing can admit agency over a world—over “the” world, over “our” world—but when that world involves those-who-are-not-the-one-writing, what does it mean to write on our world’s behalf, of our world’s...

Like sexual preference, textual preference occurs at the intersection of needs, desires, and the political realm of language.

At Milwaukee Public Radio (WUWM), learn about the history of Renaissance Books, the bookstore inside General Mitchell International Airport, courtesy of reporter Maayan Silver. "Walk into the public area of...

Emily Temple lines up little-known children's books by well-known writers, in the spirit of James Baldwin's Little Man, Little Man, which is being reissued this week. "In fact, quite a number of...