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Biography

Artists

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

Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth on Adapting the Conversations of Two American Icons for the Stage

 
By Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth  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
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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
Wrongful Conviction

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

Daniel S. Medwed on the Biases and Systemic Failures That Keep Innocent People in Prison

By Daniel S. Medwed  September 21, 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

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

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

Ramon Hervey II on a Lesser-Known Moment in Music History

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

On President Warren G. Harding’s Airedale Terrier

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
Motherhood

On Muriel Spark’s Complicated Balancing of Writing and Motherhood

By Begoña Gómez Urzaiz  September 12, 2022
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