from the archive 50 years ago in Harper’s Magazine Literary history and the present are dark with silences: the years-long silences of acknowledged greats; the ceasing to publish after one…
By Saul Bellow, from a previously unpublished essay written in 1951 and included in There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction, edited by Benjamin Taylor and out…
New evidence of the author’s suffering, and reflections on the scholarly debate
Tracing an original edition of Solomon Northup’s narrative to a slaveholder
By John Crowley, from a lecture delivered in June at MoMA PS1 as part of Triple Canopy’s Speculations (“The future is ”) series. Crowley’s article “Madame and the Masters” appeared…
Jeremy Dauber on the remarkable life and afterlife of the man who created Tevye the Dairyman