• Biography

    Biography

    “Luminous Traitor”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 20, 2018
    Biography

    Edward Gorey, Frank O’Hara and Harvard’s Gay Underground

    By Mark Dery  December 17, 2018
    Essay

    The Showgirl Who Discovered Lolita

    By Sarah Weinman  November 26, 2018
    Biography

    On the Limits of Biofiction: Bethany Layne Talks to David Lodge

    By Bethany Layne and David Lodge  November 20, 2018
    Biography

    How Saul Bellow Reckoned with Money and Fame

    By Zachary Leader  November 15, 2018
    Biography

    On the Tenacity and Bravery of a Great Journalist

    By Lindsey Hilsum  November 12, 2018
    Biography

    Co-Parenting with Lord Byron, As Weird As It Sounds

    By Miranda Seymour  November 12, 2018
    Biography

    How to Sell a Candidate to the Public: Andrew Jackson Edition

    By David and Jeanne Heidler  November 6, 2018
    Biography

    The Last Days of George Orwell

    By Hilary Spurling  November 2, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Forgotten Father of Romantic Environmentalism

    By Andrea Wulf  November 1, 2018
    Excerpts

    Hunter S. Thompson, James Salter, and a Drunken Trip to Kentucky

    By Timothy Denevi  October 30, 2018
    Art

    The Painting That Took 22 Years to Finish

    By Joshua Rivkin  October 26, 2018
    Biography

    The Rise of Arthur Ashe: Tennis Star, Civil Rights Activist

    By Raymond Arsenault  September 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    How the Great Lorraine Hansberry Tried To Make Sense of it All

    By Imani Perry  September 18, 2018
    Biography

    Hell Week: On Inner City Football in the Wake of Ferguson

    By Albert Samaha  September 17, 2018
    Excerpts

    When English and Computer Code Both Feel Like Foreign Languages

    By David Auerbach  August 31, 2018
    Essay

    Javier Marías on the Pain of Drifting Apart from Old Friends

    By Javier Marías  August 30, 2018
    Biography

    On the Birth of Princess Margaret and the Rise of Astrology as We Know It

    By Craig Brown  August 6, 2018
    Biography

    The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

    By Dawn Raffel  August 3, 2018
    Biography

    When Wilde Met Whitman

    By Michèle Mendelssohn  July 16, 2018
    Biography

    David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

    By David Lynch  July 10, 2018
    Essay

    He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

    By Ann Patchett  June 25, 2018
    Excerpts

    Reading Through the Notes for Peter Matthiessen’s Would-Be Autobiography

    By Jeff Wheelwright  June 21, 2018
    Excerpts

    The All-Too Human Cost of Appalachia’s Fracking Boom

    By Eliza Griswold  June 19, 2018
    Biography

    On the “Future Shock” of David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs

    By Jason Heller  June 19, 2018
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