Book

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

1960

J. B. Lippincott & Co.

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

On the Beat with Harper Lee

A review of Casey Cep's new book on Harper Lee's never written true crime book, "The Reverend."

by Margaret Eby via New York Review of Books on August 15, 2019
Comment

The Contested Legacy of Atticus Finch

Lee’s beloved father figure was a talking point during the Kavanaugh hearings and is now coming to Broadway. Is he still a hero?

by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on December 10, 2018
Q&A

How Reconsidering Atticus Finch Makes Us Reconsider America

A new book offers lessons drawn from Harper Lee's ambivalent treatment of this iconic character.

by Joseph Crespino, Brandon Tensley via Pacific Standard on October 10, 2018
Audio

Harper Lee's Only Recorded Interview About 'To Kill A Mockingbird' [AUDIO]

In 1964, Harper Lee talked with WQXR host Roy Newquist for an interview in New York.

via WQXR on January 1, 1964

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Howard University students protesting outside the Attorney General’s Conference on Crime held at Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C., December 13, 1934. The four-day conference failed to include lynching in its program.

A Regional Reign of Terror

Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.

by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on March 16, 2023

The old courthouse in Monroeville, Alabama.

In the Hate of Dixie

Cynthia Tucker returns to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama – also the hometown of Harper Lee, and the site of 17 lynchings.

by Cynthia Tucker via The Bitter Southerner on August 28, 2018

Atticus Finch and children at the diningroom table in the film "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Prop and Property

The house in American cinema, from the plantation to Chavez Ravine.

by John David Rhodes via Places Journal on December 1, 2017

Scout, portrayed in the film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

A Short History of the Tomboy

With roots in race and gender discord, has the “tomboy” label worn out its welcome?

by Elizabeth King via The Atlantic on January 5, 2017

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