• Biography

    Artists

    How Truman Capote and Andy Warhol’s Complex Friendship Marked Them Both

    By Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth  September 21, 2022
    Wrongful Conviction

    What the Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment of Marvin Anderson Reveals About the American Legal System

    By Daniel S. Medwed  September 21, 2022
    Food History

    Human Skulls, Misogynists, and Disability: On the Life of Marcella Hazan and Her Return to Culinary Simplicity

    By Victor Hazan  September 20, 2022
    Extremism

    What Inspired a Bigoted Media Shock Jock to Start His Own Far-Right Fight Club?

    By Andy Campbell  September 20, 2022
    Adaptations

    On Malcolm Lowry’s Yearslong, Fruitless Attempt to Adapt Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night for Film

    By Michael Melgaard  September 15, 2022
    Espionage

    The True Stories of the Women on the Front Lines of America’s Fledgling Intelligence Services

    By Nathalia Holt  September 15, 2022
    Trans History

    The Liberating and Sexual Potential of Gender Nonconformity, circa 1611

    By Dr. Kit Heyam  September 15, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Queen at War: A Young Elizabeth’s Role in WWII

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 15, 2022
    18th Century Literature

    How a Group of Young Writers and Poets Revolutionized 18th-Century Literature

    By Andrea Wulf  September 14, 2022
    On Race

    Chinelo Okparanta on William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner and Writing Across Racial Identities

    By Chinelo Okparanta  September 14, 2022
    Motherhood

    On Muriel Spark’s Complicated Balancing of Writing and Motherhood

    By Begoña Gómez Urzaiz  September 12, 2022
    Keen On

    A Profound Sense of Duty: What Josephine Baker Had in Common With Queen Elizabeth II

    By Keen On  September 12, 2022
    Fashion

    Hemlines and Court Lines: On the Evolution of Women’s Tennis Clothes

    By Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell  September 9, 2022
    Keen On

    In Search of Mary Seacole, a Remarkable Black Cultural Icon

    By Keen On  September 6, 2022
    First Draft

    Casey Parks on Piecing Together the Life Story of an Enigmatic Subject

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 6, 2022
    Celebrity

    What Can Bruce Lee Tell Us About Our Contemporary World?

    By Daryl Joji Maeda  August 26, 2022
    Fishing

    How an Unlucky Texas Fisherman Stumbled Upon an Environmental Catastrophe

    By Kirk Wallace Johnson  August 22, 2022
    Celebrity

    The Making of a Muse: When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol

    By Alice Sedgwick Wohl  August 19, 2022
    Music

    When Rick James Fought to Get Black Artists on MTV

    By Ramon Hervey II  August 19, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Why Her Intensely Complicated and Complex Life Made Colette a Great Writer

    By Book Dreams  August 18, 2022
    Ursa

    The Life and Stories of Diane Oliver

    By Ursa   August 17, 2022
    Queer History

    Radical Lesbians and Active Desire: On Rita Mae Brown and the Lesbian Political Movement

    By Nona Willis Aronowitz  August 11, 2022
    Pets

    Meet Laddie Boy: The First Celebrity Presidential Pet

    By Andrew Hager  August 10, 2022
    War Reporting

    Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

    By Christina Lamb  August 9, 2022
    In Memoriam

    Fresh Updates on the Dead: On Jerry Garcia’s Current Status in the Spirit Realm

    By Joey Sweeney  August 9, 2022
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