The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

John F. Callahan Looks at What Decades of Correspondence Can Reveal

By John F. Callahan | December 6, 2019

The Unapologetic Politics <br>of Howard Fast

The Unapologetic Politics
of Howard Fast

Mark Harris on the Writer Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy

By Mark Harris | December 6, 2019

Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Liesl Schillinger on the French Novelist Who Wrote
Powerfully of the Immigrant Experience

By Liesl Schillinger | December 5, 2019

On the Ambitious Beginnings of China's Influential Soong Sisters

On the Ambitious Beginnings of China's Influential Soong Sisters

Jung Chang Recounts Ei-Ling Soongs' First Journey to America

By Jung Chang | December 5, 2019

Elaine Stritch's Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due

Elaine Stritch's Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due

On Alexandra Jacobs' Biography of an Icon Still Here

By Leah Rosenzweig | December 4, 2019

On Brian Doyle's Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

On Brian Doyle's Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

David James Duncan Remembers the Late Great Writer
Who Tried to "Stare God in the Eye"

By David James Duncan | December 3, 2019

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Robert Polito on the Art of Iconoclastic Film Critic Manny Farber

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Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

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