Listen to Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton sharing thoughts behind “The Paris Review” magazine
Excerpt from the documentary The Paris Review: Early Chapters (2001).
Checkerboard Film Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.This video dramatizes Shirley Jackson's “The Lottery,” a frightening and highly controversial tale that uses the mundanity of life in a rural town to intensify the shocking revelation of what its yearly lottery decides. This 1969 video is a production of the Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.From 2019 to 2022, Joy Harjo held the role of U.S. poet laureate.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Alice Walker published The Color Purple in 1982. With it, she became the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Ever attended a poetry reading in an arena?
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Harjo calls this her “kitchen table poem.”
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn about essential elements of the novel—including mood, motivation, characterization, and style—with editor and anthologist Clifton Fadiman and actors from London's Old Vic theater company. This is a 1962 production of Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.On January 1, 1818, a small London publisher printed 500 copies of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus on the cheapest paper available. That was only the beginning.
