February 8, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + TeachingJean Malaquais and the life of a novel by JULIA ELSKY This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Researching the life of a novel means uncovering the traces of how it was written—not only the edits, corrections, and additions made to a manuscript, but also the conversations in letters or in diaries that show… read more
February 5, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Film, Research + TeachingThe women who made Selznick’s screenplays by ERIN MCGUIRL This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Research is part of the history of Hollywood’s Golden age. Eighty years ago, in the heyday of the studio system, little libraries on studio lots employed a handful of people who collaborated with writers, directors, producers,… read more
February 1, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1A lost work by Langston Hughes In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race, unpublished in English until 2019. It’s not every day that you come across an extraordinary unknown work by one of the nation’s greatest writers. But buried in an unrelated archive, I discovered a searing essay condemning racism in… read more
