Anne Trubek is an associate professor of English at Oberlin College. She is author of A Skeptic’s Guide To Writers’ Houses, to be published by University of Pennsylvania Press in October 2010.
To understand her, you need to understand Eatonville—and vice versa.
Charles Brockden Brown mixed spontaneous combustion with Gothic horror.
2016 Summer
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Humboldt in the New World
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
By Anna Maria Gillis
Done with Tolstoy
Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.
By Kevin Mahnken
A Workingman's Poet
Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.
By Danny Heitman
The Blue Humanities
In studying the sea, we are returning to our beginnings.
By John R. Gillis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What accounts for Emerson's endurance as a writer?
