Willa Cather

The hardscrabble origins and unique vision of novelist Willa Cather.

On the early years of America's chronicler of the Great Plains.

From Hemingway to Mencken, no one thought a woman could write about combat.

Willa Cather's life and work broke with the standards of her time.

James Shapiro's book "The Playbook" is a timely reminder both of the power of theater and of the vehement antipathy it can generate.

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater.

Alicia Puglionesi explores the damage white supremacy did to Native Americans and their land.

Knowing I come from people who lived hard lives and endured terrible things is difficult. Knowing that I come from someone who ruined lives haunts me.

Why is Shelby Foote's Civil War subject to so much contemporary debate?

Reading the literature of past plagues and suddenly seeing our present reflected in a mirror.

Mikaella Clements on the role of baths in twentieth-century literature.

How the story itself came out.

The story of the artist behind Exxon's famous logo.

Fear of diminishing broodstock got the gals going outdoors.