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How Picasso Built the Foundation for the Surrealist Movement

How Picasso Built the Foundation for the Surrealist Movement

John Richardson on the Famed Painter's Friendships with Surrealist Writers and Artists

By John Richardson | November 17, 2021

How Elizabeth Hardwick Spent Her “Starving Artist” Years in the Big City

How Elizabeth Hardwick Spent Her “Starving Artist” Years in the Big City

Cathy Curtis on the Author of Sleepless Nights Leaving School

By Cathy Curtis | November 16, 2021

Dostoevsky totally did NaNoWriMo.

Dostoevsky totally did NaNoWriMo.

By Walker Caplan | November 12, 2021

The True Story of Pearl Hart, Straight-Shooting, Poetry-Writing Woman Bandit

The True Story of Pearl Hart, Straight-Shooting, Poetry-Writing Woman Bandit

John Boessenecker on the Most Infamous Woman in America, Circa 1899

By John Boessenecker | November 11, 2021

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

“The years we have gone through have killed something in us.”

By Robert Meagher | November 10, 2021

The Legendary Meeting of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

The Legendary Meeting of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

Bob Spitz on the Men Behind Led Zeppelin

By Bob Spitz | November 9, 2021

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On the Humble Childhood Beginnings of H.G. Wells

By Claire Tomalin | November 8, 2021

On Unjustly Forgotten American Abstract Artist Alice Trumbull Mason

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“Was It I Who Came Back Home?” On the Return of Catherine Dior and Other Survivors of Ravensbrück

By Justine Picardie | November 4, 2021

Marriage Story: On the Volatile Relationship Between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway

Marriage Story: On the Volatile Relationship Between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway

Judith Mackrell Considers the Pair's "Crazy Honeymoon" and Gellhorn On-Assignment in China

By Judith Mackrell | November 3, 2021

The Literary Adventures of Polly Adler, the Algonquin Round Table’s Favorite Madam

The Literary Adventures of Polly Adler, the Algonquin Round Table’s Favorite Madam

Debby Applegate on the Exploits of the New Yorker Crowd in Prohibition-Era New York

By Debby Applegate | November 2, 2021

How Vincent van Gogh’s Favorite Works of French Literature Influenced His Art and Identity

How Vincent van Gogh’s Favorite Works of French Literature Influenced His Art and Identity

Steven Naifeh on the Painter's Lifelong Relationship to Books

By Steven Naifeh | November 2, 2021

All About Basket: A Letter from Gertrude Stein About Her Beloved Dog

All About Basket: A Letter from Gertrude Stein About Her Beloved Dog

“In short he is a happy fool, and a great comfort, and some day you will meet.”

By Shaun Usher | November 2, 2021

The Best New Nonfiction to Read This November

The Best New Nonfiction to Read This November

From Ski Bums to Jazz Age Madams to Postwar Bohemians

By Literary Hub | November 1, 2021

Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

Considering the Dark Horrors of Stephen Crane’s “An Episode of War”

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Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

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