Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Dick DiMarsico / Library of Congress; The New York Public Library. The freewheeling Anderson was the kind of ahead-of-her-time woman whose story is likely to be ...

One hundred years ago this month, ”The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot was first published in Poetry magazine. Ezra Pound heralded it as “the best poem I have yet seen from an American” ...

Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...

Frightened by D.H. Lawrence's "orgasmic discipline"? Confused about Gertrude Stein's "tickling"? Fear not: Laura Frost knows her way around the modernist classics. Associate professor of literary ...

Tagore, a name not only associated with literature, but rather a name linked with arts, culture, music, philosophy, and many more disciplines. Many recognize Tagore as a writer and poet; however, many ...

WHEN you walk down the Avenida Presidente Wilson in Rio de Janeiro, you pass by a small, graceful building which we call the Petit Trianon. Brazilians are proud of the edifice because it is the home ...