Frank is a recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. His most recent publication is the remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi, whose conversations with the ...
Fisher is the biographer and chair of American Studies at Wellesley College, whose books bring to life American literary and artistic expatriates of the Belle ...
Zhuqing Li is a professor at Brown University and a faculty curator at the University’s Rockefeller Library. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden follows the ...
Smith is the New York Times best-selling author of eight biographies on the Royal Family and American political figures. Her latest book is the definitive ...
Speigelman is the Hughes Professor of English, emeritus, at Southern Methodist University. He was the first Amy Clampitt Fellow in Stockbridge, where he assembled the ...
Washington Post columnist Max Boot, international affairs correspondent Anne Nelson, and New York Times contributor Ted Widmer share their war-reporting experiences and observations on ongoing ...
Wharton specialists and literary experts Jennifer Haytock, Sheila Liming, and Nathan Wolff share their views on why Edith Wharton’s writings remain relevant today, moderated by ...
In this “masterpiece of discernment and insight” (The New York Times Book Review), acclaimed biographer Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of Angela Merkel’s ...
Ann McCutchan‘s The Life She Wished to Live paints a lively portrait of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida landscape and people that inspired her. ...
In Scientific Americans, Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in American efforts to achieve cultural independence from Europe and America’s nation building ...
“I became another statistic of NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg’s infamous stop-and-frisk policing, later deemed unconstitutional by US District Court judge…At the time, I was ...
It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh—a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan—stumbled upon a pick-up game of soccer in Clarkston, ...