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How Saul Bellow Reckoned with Money and Fame

How Saul Bellow Reckoned with Money and Fame

"Guys, I'm Rich. What Can I Get For You?"

By Zachary Leader | November 15, 2018

On the Tenacity and Bravery of a Great Journalist

On the Tenacity and Bravery of a Great Journalist

Marie Colvin, Reporting from East Timor

By Lindsey Hilsum | November 12, 2018

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

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

Miranda Seymour the Precociousness of the Poet's Daughter

By Miranda Seymour | November 12, 2018

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

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

On the Dark Tradition of American Populism

By davidandjeanneheidler | November 6, 2018

The Last Days of George Orwell

The Last Days of George Orwell

"All the time there was the stench of death in the air."

By Hilary Spurling | November 2, 2018

The Forgotten Father of Romantic Environmentalism

The Forgotten Father of Romantic Environmentalism

Alexander von Humboldt Influenced Everyone from Darwin to Whitman

By Andrea Wulf | November 1, 2018

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

By Timothy Denevi | October 30, 2018

The Painting That Took 22 Years to Finish

By Joshua Rivkin | October 26, 2018

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

By Raymond Arsenault | September 26, 2018

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

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

On an Important American Writer, About Whom We Know Far Too Little

By Imani Perry | September 18, 2018

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

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

“Today is when we find out who’s a football player.”

By Albert Samaha | September 17, 2018

When English and Computer Code Both Feel Like Foreign Languages

When English and Computer Code Both Feel Like Foreign Languages

"I am Ill at Ease in a Room of People Speaking Quickly and Fluidly"

By David Auerbach | August 31, 2018

Javier Marías on the Pain of Drifting Apart from Old Friends

Javier Marías on the Pain of Drifting Apart from Old Friends

"When and Why Did We Stop Seeing Each Other? I Simply Don't Know"

By Javier Marías | August 30, 2018

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

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

The Royal Family Was Really Into Horoscopes

By Craig Brown | August 6, 2018

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

Martin Couney May Not Have Had Medical Credentials, But He Saved Thousands

By Dawn Raffel | August 3, 2018

When Wilde Met Whitman

When Wilde Met Whitman

As He Told a Friend Years Later, "The Kiss of Walt Whitman is Still on My Lips"

By Michèle Mendelssohn | July 16, 2018

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