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Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

The Tragic Tale of the Physicist Lev Shtrum

By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer | May 29, 2019

SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

From Paolo Parisi's Graphic Biography of a New York Legend

By Paolo Parisi | May 28, 2019

On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Revisits Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin's
The Making of a Southerner

By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall | May 22, 2019

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

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

A Southern Gothic Writer, a Very White Condiment

By Caroline McCoy | May 17, 2019

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

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

Caroline Fraser: “Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, shrouded, disguised, crushed, thwarted, mocked, warped, punished, or excoriated.”

By Caroline Fraser | May 16, 2019

Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

How to Reconstruct a Life with the Public Record

By David A. Taylor | May 14, 2019

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

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On the Great Clarice Lispector

By Benjamin Moser | April 30, 2019

James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of <em>Giovanni's Room</em>

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

"If France proffered him love, it also bathed him in a peculiar shade of loneliness."

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 25, 2019

Germaine Greer and the Cusp of<br> the Feminist Revolution

Germaine Greer and the Cusp of
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On the Early Days of the Women's Liberation Movement

By Elizabeth Kleinhenz | April 19, 2019

The Cautionary Patriotism of<br> the Presidents Adams

The Cautionary Patriotism of
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Father and Son Alike, Suspicious of Too Much Charisma

By Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein | April 18, 2019

When Nelson Algren Fell in Love with Simone de Beauvoir

When Nelson Algren Fell in Love with Simone de Beauvoir

The Start of a Seven-Month Affair That Changed Both Writers' Lives

By Colin Asher | April 17, 2019

Embedded with the Beating Heart of Madagascar's Literary Life

Embedded with the Beating Heart of Madagascar's Literary Life

Allison M. Charette Travels 9,000 Miles to Translate Michèle Rakotoson

By Allison M. Charette | April 17, 2019

Tragedies of Ambition: On the Fine Art of American Sportswriting

Tragedies of Ambition: On the Fine Art of American Sportswriting

Wright Thompson Heads Home to See the Big Picture

By Wright Thompson | April 12, 2019

The French Satirist Who Brought Anarchy Into Art

The French Satirist Who Brought Anarchy Into Art

On Georges Blondeaux, or Gébé

By Edward Gauvin | April 3, 2019

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