• Biography

    Pop Music

    “A Sicko Producer’s Dream.” On the Infectious Textures of Britney Spears’s Shifting Voice

    By Natasha Lasky  October 17, 2022
    Keen On

    On the Life and Work of Stevie Nicks

    By Keen On  October 14, 2022
    Keen On

    What Makes a “Great” Banker? The Story of Edmond Safra, One of the Greatest Bankers of the 20th Century

    By Keen On  October 14, 2022
    Colonialism

    The Naturalist’s Gaze: What Charles Darwin Saw in Tahiti

    By Diana Preston  October 13, 2022
    Painters

    The Waning Years of Edward Hopper

    By Richard Lacayo  October 13, 2022
    Keen On

    What Made Samuel Adams Both the Most Essential and the Least Understood Founding Father

    By Keen On  October 13, 2022
    Keen On

    Examining Charles Darwin’s Soul: A Singular Case of Biophilia

    By Keen On  October 12, 2022
    Supreme Court

    Nina Totenberg on Her Long Friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    By Nina Totenberg  October 6, 2022
    Sexuality

    Sex and the 16th Century: How John Donne Learned To Write Love Poetry

    By Katherine Rundell  October 5, 2022
    Etiquette

    The Pulse of American Life: On Emily Post’s Evolving Legacy

    By Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning  October 5, 2022
    Audiobook Break

    For Us All Act I: On Fred Korematsu’s Conviction—and the Fight to Overturn it 40 Years Later

    By Audiobook Break  October 4, 2022
    Painting

    What the Word “Beauty” Meant to Helen Frankenthaler

    By Douglas Dreishpoon  October 3, 2022
    Poetry

    The Found Poems of Goliarda Sapienza

    By Chiara Barzini  September 28, 2022
    Diaries

    Annie Ernaux on the “Infinite Lack” in Our Search for Love

    By Annie Ernaux  September 27, 2022
    Architecture

    How an Architect’s Endless Pursuit of Artistic Perfection Drove Him To Despair

    By Charlotte Van den Broeck  September 26, 2022
    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
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