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Eileen O'Shaughnessy was George Orwell's largely invisible wife, intellectual partner, domestic savior, and greatest financial supporter. A new biography fills the holes in the historical record to imagine her life back into being.

A case can be made for the years 1879, 1880 and 1881 being more consequential than any others since in the making of modern Ireland. In 1879, the I...

Two new books aim to paint a fuller picture of lesbian experience than existing archives can provide. But what they leave out speaks volumes.

In this month's OPEN BOOK, the author of a new "memoir in archives" tells us about her inspirations—Sadiya Hartman, Sarah Schulman—and preference for paperbacks.

The 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center's Spring literary season continues in May and June with readings by acclaimed authors Isabel Allende, Lorrie Moore and Miriam Toews, poet Willie Perdomo – and a dramatic reading of Seamus Heaney's work by actor Ben Whishaw, among other events.

This week, looking back at New York City’s first community garden, honoring Harry Belafonte’s life in photos, medication abortions across history, and how did a LACMA statue end up on Craigslist?

Christina Sharpe is expanding the vocabulary of life in slavery’s long shadow — peeling back the meaning of familiar words and resurrecting neglected history.

“Allow yourself to be terrified to take risks and take those risks anyway.”

The bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words shares the spark behind her new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho – filling the ‘blank spaces’ around the women who worked at Oxford University Press

Dismissed by some as mere speculation, examining ‘what ifs’ can shed valuable light on neglected perspectives