October 21, 2014
Even 165 years after Poe’s death, we still have little idea what ended his life.
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Even 165 years after Poe’s death, we still have little idea what ended his life.
Read More179 years ago today, it was OK to marry your underage first cousin — and Poe did exactly that with Virginia Eliza Clemm.
Read MoreUruguayan fiction writer, poet and playwright Quiroga was a master of the bizarre but also an ancestor of the magical realists.
Read MoreConsidering his revelry in poetry, sex and rebellion, you might assume that Charles Baudelaire was a man of the political left … but you’d be wrong.
Read MoreThough it may seem like the answer is yes, Emily Dickinson, Franz Kafka and John Kennedy Toole might disagree.
Read MoreProve once and for all that you’re Oscar Wilde’s greatest fan by identifying his penmanship.
Read MoreOne-hundred-and-seventy-three years after the publication of Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” we celebrate its inspiration: Detective Eugene Vidocq.
Read MoreWe take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... deeper meaning? Hidden truth? Happy coincidence?
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