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Biography

Memoir

The Road to Oliver Sacks’

By Lawrence Weschler  August 13, 2019
Personal Essay

Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

By Brandon Shimoda  July 30, 2019
Modern Classics

The Writer and the Dictator:
A Love/Hate Story

By Alaa Al Aswany  July 29, 2019
Literary love stories

Behind the Myths of Scott and Zelda’s Epic Romance

By Eleanor Lanahan  July 23, 2019
Photography

Borscht Beach: Andy Sweet’s Iconic South Beach Photography

By Literary Hub  July 23, 2019
In This Essay I Will...

Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don’t Read Too Much.

By Antoine Compagnon  June 27, 2019
Gay Icons

On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

By Camille Paglia  June 27, 2019
Criticism

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal’s Long Career

By Catherine Lacey  June 25, 2019
Literary History

What Was Hemingway Doing in Cuba During World War II?

By Andrew Feldman  June 24, 2019
Journalism

On America’s First Openly Gay Reporter at a Major Newspaper

By Andrew E. Stoner  June 19, 2019
Movies

How Lakshmi Shankar Became the Voice Behind the Epic Gandhi

By Kavita Das  June 17, 2019
Literary History

What the 39,933 Items on Peter Matthiessen’s Computer Mean for the Art of Biography

By Lance Richardson  June 13, 2019
Art History

In Pablo Picasso’s Studio During the Nazi Occupation of Paris

By Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake  June 13, 2019
Literary History

Jack London, Rags to Riches and Back Again

By Joy Lanzendorfer  June 7, 2019
Architecture

On Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architectural War For New York’s Skyline

By Anthony Alofsin  May 29, 2019
New in Nonfiction

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer  May 29, 2019
graphic biography

SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

By Paolo Parisi  May 28, 2019
Radicalism

On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall  May 22, 2019
Literary Oddities

Flannery O’Connor’s Two Deepest Loves Were Mayonnaise and Her Mother

By Caroline McCoy  May 17, 2019
New in Nonfiction

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

By Caroline Fraser  May 16, 2019
WWII

Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

By David A. Taylor  May 14, 2019
Fathers and Daughters

Anjelica Huston on Finding Her Father in the Writing of Lillian Ross

By Anjelica Huston  May 3, 2019
Terminal Wit

Dorothy Parker: Political Activist, Melancholic, Bootleg Scotch-Drinker

By Mervyn Horder  May 1, 2019
Geniuses

On the Great Clarice Lispector

By Benjamin Moser  April 30, 2019
Queer Lit

James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of Giovanni’s Room

By Gabrielle Bellot  April 25, 2019
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