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The Grown-Up Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince is being revived as a feature film. And who was the Frenchman who wrote it?
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Free State of Jones the Movie Was Partly Inspired by The Free State of Jones the Book.
The Free State of Jones in Mississippi, led by a freethinking farmer, seceded from the Confederacy.
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Who Said, “Compression Is the First Grace of Style”? Democritus or Demetrius?
An erroneous citation that lived on for decades in the text of a well-known poem.
By Steve Moyer -
H. L. Mencken Loved to Cover Political Conventions but Had Little Faith in Voters
Mencken was the poet laureate of political conventions.
By Danny Heitman -
Touring the New World Trade Center with Its Official Biographer
Getting to the bottom of the complicated rebuilding of an American icon.
By David Skinner -
When Muhammad Ali Wrote a Poem with Marianne Moore
Muhammad Ali, the great heavyweight champion, met with Marianne Moore, the celebrated poet. A sonnet resulted.
By Danny Heitman -
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Computers in English Class, Circa 1974
It was the early 1970s and NEH was funding a project using hypertext to teach college students how to read poetry.
By Jennifer Howard -
The Secret Lives of Jean Seberg
A small-town girl from Iowa became the "it" girl of the French New Wave.
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The Year of Numbered Rooms
An author shares the highs and lows of life on tour.
By Emily St. John Mandel
