How Leonardo Da Vinci Became the Ultimate Renaissance Man

How Leonardo Da Vinci Became the Ultimate Renaissance Man

Eden Collinsworth on the Intellectual and Artistic Development of One of History’s Greatest Geniuses

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Remembering the Kindness and Master Storytelling of Editor and Author George Hodgman

Remembering the Kindness and Master Storytelling of Editor and Author George Hodgman

Gabe Montesanti on Her Friend and Mentor

By Gabe Montesanti | May 24, 2022

Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

“She seems to be expressing a solitariness that is unusual, anti-romantic.”

By Elizabeth Hardwick | May 23, 2022

Behind the Scenes of <em>Ready to Die</em>: An Excerpt from <Em>It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him</em>

Behind the Scenes of Ready to Die: An Excerpt from It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him

Justin Tinsley on the Creation of an Iconic Album

By Justin Tinsley | May 20, 2022

Steve Paul and Henry Schvey on How Evan S. Connell and Tennessee Williams Never Really Left Missouri

Steve Paul and Henry Schvey on How Evan S. Connell and Tennessee Williams Never Really Left Missouri

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 19, 2022

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

The Lesser-Told Story of Cather and Edith Lewis

By Melissa Homestead | May 18, 2022

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Walking With Destiny: Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill

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Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls

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Emmeline Clein on the American Tradition of Fetishizing Women Writers, Then Forgetting Them

By Emmeline Clein | May 9, 2022

How Sylvia Sleigh’s Nude Male Portraits Subverted the Muse Narrative

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The Feminist Painter Who Resisted Objectification

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Behind the Scenes at Andy Warhol’s First Big Bash in “Vacant, Vacuous Hollywood”

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Mark Rozzo on the Artist's First Trip to LA, with Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward

By Mark Rozzo | May 9, 2022

Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

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How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

Julia Sweig On America’s Most Famous Second Lady-Turned-First

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The first major biography of Volodymyr Zelensky in English will be published in July.

The first major biography of Volodymyr Zelensky in English will be published in July.

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