Here you can find information on articles and writing projects by Matthew Pearl other than his novels.

Short Fiction

Matthew Pearl's short story "Year of the Pig" appears on FiveChapters.com. Click here to read the story.

Articles, Essays, Forewords

Matthew Pearl contributes the foreword to Novel Destinations, a guide to the famous homes and haunts of favorite authors by Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon. Visit the book's website for more.

Matthew Pearl wrote the cover essay for the London Saturday Telegraph books section, "Mysterious for Evermore," investigating the death of Edgar Allan Poe. Click here to read the essay.

Matthew Pearl's op-ed "How The Liberal Arts Got That Way," on the resignation of Lawrence Summers from Harvard, The New York Times. Click here to read the op-ed online.

Matthew Pearl's op-ed "The Lost Continent of The Atlantic," on the move of The Atlantic Monthly out of Boston, The New York Times. Click here to read the op-ed online.

Matthew Pearl writes on why we read Dante in Babelia, literary supplement of Spanish newspaper El Pais. (article online for subscribers only). (in Spanish).

Matthew Pearl considers the genre of "intellectual thriller" in this article for Argentine newspaper Clarin (in Spanish).

Matthew Pearl interviews author James Carroll as part of the Authors Interview Authors section of the Literary Issue of the Improper Bostonian, October 2003.

Matthew Pearl's op-ed "Let Us Read Longfellow," on the value of reading Longfellow, The Wall Street Journal. Click here to read the op-ed online.

Matthew Pearl's article on "Dante and the Death Penalty" appeared in the January/February 2003 "Crime and Punishment" issue of Legal Affairs magazine. (Click here to read the article.) The article was cited in a major Massachusetts District Court decision by Judge Mark Wolf regarding the execution sentence of Gary Sampson in January 2004.

Scholarly Works

Matthew Pearl's essay "A Poe Death Dossier: Discoveries and Queries in the Death of Edgar Allan Poe" appears in two parts in the Edgar Allan Poe Review, in Vol. 7.2 (Fall 2006) and 8.1 (Spring 2007).

Matthew Pearl edited and wrote the introduction to the Modern Library edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales (more here).

Matthew Pearl edited and wrote the introduction to the Modern Library editions of Dante's Inferno: The Longfellow Translation (more here).

Matthew Pearl's essay "Colossal Cipher: Emerson as America’s Lost Dantean" appeared in the Dante Studies journal, volume 117 (1999).

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