Declan Kiely and Isaac Gewirtz, curators of the new Morgan Library exhibit Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul, reveal a more complex, nuanced biography of the American author than the tortured-looking daguerreotypes and tales of horror might at first glance suggest. Terror of the Soul charts Poe’s life and influence on later authors through manuscripts, letters, original publications, and artwork.
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with David Wootton, author of Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. More
Lewis Lapham talks to John Micklethwait about rethinking the machinery of the state in the twenty-first century. More
Willard Sterne Randall and Lewis Lapham talk about the life and adventures of Ethan Allen. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Year of Peril: America in 1942. More
