Tag: Letters
How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry
Jason Miller, North Carolina State University
In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been...
Emily Dickinson is the unlikely hero of our time
Matthew Redmond, Stanford University
Since her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms.
She has been the precocious “little dead girl” admired...
How Hemingway felt about fatherhood
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
Ernest Hemingway was affectionately called “Papa,” but what kind of dad was he?
In my role as Associate Editor of the...
Bob Dylan brings links between JFK assassination and coronavirus into stark...
Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia
Over the past few weeks, the coronavirus has turned the country’s cultural spigot off, with sports suspended, museums closed and...
I wrote a book about email – and found myself pining...
Randy Malamud, Georgia State University
Email has become so prevalent in our lives that I felt compelled to write about it for a Bloomsbury series...
How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of...
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
When he published “The Sun Also Rises” in 1926, Ernest Hemingway was well-known among the expatriate literati of Paris and...
EXPLORING NATURE
How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple –...
Shelley Mitchell, Oklahoma State University
Pecans, America’s only native major nut, have a storied history in the United States....
