Edgar Allan Poe

Poe vs. Himself: On the Writer’s One-Sided War with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Anne Whitehouse Tells the Story of the Little Longfellow War

 
By Anne Whitehouse  July 24, 2023
The Hub

The ghost of Edgar Allan Poe has taken over Eurovision.

By Eliza Smith  May 12, 2023
Literary History

Writer on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Time Philip Roth Lied to Me

By Barbara Shulgasser-Parker  April 7, 2022
The Hub

Let’s remember when The Simpsons did “The Raven.”

By Dan Sheehan  January 26, 2022
Prohibition

How American Authors Helped Push an Agenda of “Temperance”

By Carl Erik Fisher  January 25, 2022
Literary Criticism

The Work of Living Goes On: Rereading Mrs Dalloway During an Endless Pandemic

By Colin Dickey  December 6, 2021
The Hub

Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe might have died because of voter fraud?

By Katie Yee  November 2, 2021
Homes

Famous Writers’ Houses: A Taxonomy

By Emily Temple  October 14, 2021
The Hub

The creator of Midnight Mass is now adapting Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher.

By Vanessa Willoughby  October 7, 2021
The Hub

Roberto Bolaño’s best advice for writing short stories is . . . pretty wild.

By Emily Temple  July 14, 2021
Scams

The Balloon-Hoax of Edgar Allan Poe and Early New York Grifters

By John Tresch  June 16, 2021
Reading Habits

Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?

By Matthew Redmond  January 22, 2021
The History of Literature

The Real Golden Age of
Science Fiction

By History of Literature  November 16, 2020
The History of Literature

We Have Edgar Allan Poe to Thank for the Detective Story

By History of Literature  October 26, 2020
The Hub

A letter from a poor Edgar Allan Poe sold for $125,000.

By Aaron Robertson  October 20, 2020
The History of Literature

On Edgar Allan Poe’s Creepy Doppelgänger Story, “William Wilson”

By History of Literature  October 12, 2020
The History of Literature

On the Haunting Remorse of Edgar Allan Poe’s
“The Black Cat”

By History of Literature  October 5, 2020
Short Stories

43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language

By Emily Temple  August 19, 2020
Music

Bob Dylan channels Walt Whitman in another glorious surprise release.

By Aaron Robertson  April 17, 2020
Literary Long Weekend

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Philadelphia

By Literary Hub  November 10, 2019
The Hub

That v. which: a grammatical throwdown.

By Philip Hensher  June 25, 2019
Disappearing Archives

Disappearing Archives: Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation

By Harmony Holiday  June 10, 2019
Feature

The 32 Most Iconic Poems in the English Language

By Emily Temple  March 7, 2019
Feature

On the Archetypes of the Captivity Narrative

By Aimee Parkison  March 7, 2019
Feature

A Brief and Incomplete Survey of Edgar Allan Poes in Pop Culture

By Emily Temple  January 18, 2019
Design

50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

By Emily Temple  May 2, 2018
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