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Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

“Perhaps more than any visionary before or since, Blake had the creative skill to express what he experienced.”

By John Higgs | May 13, 2022

When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman on a Chance Encounter Between a Young Novelist and an Aging Philosopher

By Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman | May 11, 2022

Walking With Destiny: Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill

Walking With Destiny: Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | May 11, 2022

Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls

Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls

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

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

The Feminist Painter Who Resisted Objectification

By Ruth Millington | May 9, 2022

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

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

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

By Mark Rozzo | May 9, 2022

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Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

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How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

By Julia Sweig | May 6, 2022

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

By Corinne Segal | May 4, 2022

After Steve Jobs, The Flood: Apple Without Its Emblematic and Enigmatic Founder

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Tripp Mickle Explains the Line of Succession at a Silicon Valley Powerhouse

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The Untold and Very True Story of <em>The Devil Wears Prada</em>

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Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention

Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention

“He wanted to write, to give himself over to pure leisure, to the search.”

By Alejandro Zambra | May 2, 2022

How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

Rosalyn Story on Discovering Jones' Personal Scrapbook

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What <em>Julia</em>—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones

What Julia—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones

Sara Franklin on the Stark Boundaries Between Myth and Reality

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On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

Katie Bennett Measures the Emotional Toll of Writing a Feminist Recovery Story

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Illustrating Patricia Highsmith’s Literary Career

Illustrating Patricia Highsmith’s Literary Career

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