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What Nathaniel Hawthorne Has To Say to Silicon Valley About Techno-Optimism

An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne

Satanic Sympathies: On the Demon Depictions That Helped Jamie Quarto Write Two-Step Devil

The Cosmic Library Reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield"

Welcome to Season 5 of The Cosmic Library

A Feminist Before Feminism: A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston

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From Ovid to Hawthorne, on the Power and Possibility of Retelling Classic Stories

When Franklin Pierce Saved Nathaniel Hawthorne from Financial Ruin

The Concept of the Guilty Pleasure Privileges Productivity Above All Else

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

WandaVision is basically a retelling of The Scarlet Letter.

How Nathaniel Hawthorne Distinguished Between ‘Novels’ and ‘Romances’

Walking Through the House Where Louisa May Alcott Wrote Little Women

A Brief History of Mostly Terrible Campaign Biographies

A Visual Tour of 35 Literary Bars and Cafés from Around the World