Olivia Nuzzi, American Canto (2025)

George Salton, The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir (2002, repr. 2022)

Wole Soyinka, The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka (1972)

Dinty W. Moore, To Hell With It (2021)

“How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem,” First Things Blogpost

Sam Mendes, Jarhead (2005)

Max Hastings, Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers (2003)

Catherine Cho, Inferno (2020)

Tyler E. Boudreau, Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine (2008)

James Baldwin, “Stranger in the Village” (1955)

Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars (2019)

Eileen Myles, Inferno: A Poet’s Novel (2010)

Gregory Bellow, “Crises of the Spirit: Dante and Bellow” (2016)

Alberto Manguel, “Thoughts That Can’t Be Spoken” (2014)

Edmund White, Inside a Pearl (2014)