A birthday toast to Sylvia Plath, who had work to do

Her letters are funny, her routine was fierce, and her biographer says the story was always a writer’s quest. Happy birthday ...
Literary Hub

Jane Eyre’s Watercolors, Lily Briscoe’s Paintings, and The Problem With Writing About Art

Is it telling that I was always more interested in the amateurs? When I think about the literary depictions of artists I ...

Actress Carrie Coon shares list of her favorite Chicago things, people and places

Award-winning actress Carrie Coon shared a list of her favorite Chicago things while speaking at a screening of a new movie ...

The Temporary Pleasure of Conversation

But Woolf’s remark doesn’t necessarily imply that conversation is meaningless. Understanding that conversations are temporary, that they fly up the chimney to make room for new ones, can help us talk ...

‘The Imaginary Invalid’: Bill Irwin’s Broadway revival receives a mixed diagnosis from critics

Bill Irwin is ready for his close-up... and a check-up . The acclaimed actor and skilled clown stars in the new Broadway ...
Roger Ebert

Change the Conversation: When Movies Talked About Mental Health

October 10 th was Mental Health Awareness Day, which got us thinking about how the issue has been presented in filmmaking ...

Is Virginia Woolf This Season’s Literary It Girl?

This is the same lament of a stream of TikToks about aging as a woman and perimenopause and the thousand other bits about ...

The joy of night walking

In a new anthology, writers from Charles Dickens to Virginia Woolf shed light on the allure of walking in the dark. Jan ...