Literature
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Literature
In the early 1900s, a St. Louis woman claimed a long-dead Puritan spirit dictated novels, poems, and plays through a Ouija board, raising enduring questions about authorship, spiritualism, automatic writing, and literary history.
An exploration of how Franz Hessel’s '"`UNIQ--nowiki-00002475-QINU`"'Walking in Berlin'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00002476-QINU`"' captures everyday life, memory, and social blind spots in Weimar-era urban culture.
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel, shaped by personal loss and her love of nature, tells the story of an orphaned girl who restores a forgotten garden—and changes the lives of those around her.
A literary scholar’s analysis of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard before Frey’s fraud was publicly acknowledged.
Content warning: This article contains mentions of rape and suicide.
