• Biography

    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
    Biography

    The Young Anarchist and Future Joy of Sex Author Who Sparred with George Orwell Over World War II

    By Eric Laursen  June 11, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Photographer Who Recorded Assad’s Torture

    By Garance Le Caisne  June 8, 2018
    Biography

    The Treacherous Start to Mary and Percy Shelley’s Marriage

    By Fiona Sampson  May 31, 2018
    Biography

    Where Hemingway Went to Write, After Partying in Venice

    By Andrea Di Robilant  May 29, 2018
    Biography

    On the Boyhood Classmates Who Drove Proust to Write

    By Caroline Weber  May 24, 2018
    Biography

    Chasing an Impossible Storm

    By Brantley Hargrove  May 23, 2018
    Excerpts

    On Soseki’s Bitingly Critical Novel, I Am a Cat

    By John Nathan  May 16, 2018
    Biography

    How a Christmas Present Gave Harper Lee the Time to Write To Kill a Mockingbird

    By Joseph Crespino  May 8, 2018
    Biography

    On James Baldwin’s Radical Writing for Playboy Magazine

    By Joseph Vogel  April 17, 2018
    Biography

    James Baldwin: ‘I Did Not Want to Weep for Martin, Tears Seemed Futile’

    By Jason Sokol  April 4, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Louisa May Alcott’s Mother Encouraged Her Early Writing

    By Gardner McFall  March 23, 2018
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