Professor Laura B. McGrath’s Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction exposes the vital yet understated role literary agents play in American literature. […]
A Mother’s “Alternate Universe”: How Losing a Child Rewrites Reality
There exists a term to describe the transformation women undergo when becoming mothers—matrescence—which characterizes how their bodies and minds adapt to nurturing a child. Yet […]
Why ‘Stand By Me’ (1986) Is Still America’s Most Timeless Film on Childhood
Among the many gifts of the 1980s was an abundance of coming-of-age dramas and comedies. Today, the genre has nearly disappeared from theaters, but the […]
Two Dynasties Collide: The Kennedys and Windsors’ Unlikely Entanglements
There’s a mini-vogue in publishing now not so much for group biographies (how very 2019!) but for histories that take two apparently contrasted dynasties or […]