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The Light and the Dark: Tom Hollander on Playing Truman Capote

The Light and the Dark: Tom Hollander on Playing Truman Capote

“Once you smell how brilliant he was, you feel it's legitimate to show the roiling squalor of his demise.”

By Dan Sheehan | March 13, 2024

What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford

Ramie Targoff on the Hidden History of Women Writers of the English Renaissance

By Ramie Targoff | March 13, 2024

History Skews Male: Looking at Anna May Wong’s Life Through the Eyes of a Woman

History Skews Male: Looking at Anna May Wong’s Life Through the Eyes of a Woman

Katie Gee Salisbury on Writing a Biography of the Iconic Chinese American Movie Star

By Katie Gee Salisbury | March 13, 2024

“A Nation of Lunatics.” What Oscar Wilde Thought About America

“A Nation of Lunatics.” What Oscar Wilde Thought About America

Rob Marland on the Irish Writer’s Grand Tour of the Gilded Age United States

By Rob Marland | March 11, 2024

Double Vision: How the McLaughlin Sisters Took the Photography World By Storm

Double Vision: How the McLaughlin Sisters Took the Photography World By Storm

Carol Kino on On Our Enduring Cultural Fascination With Twins

By Carol Kino | March 8, 2024

The Icon and the Upstart: On Miles Davis’s Legendary Feud With Wynton Marsalis

The Icon and the Upstart: On Miles Davis’s Legendary Feud With Wynton Marsalis

James Kaplan Remembers One of Jazz’s Great Generational Battles

By James Kaplan | March 6, 2024

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Kalpana Raina on Translating Her Uncle Hari Krishna Kaul’s Stories of Kashmir

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Revisiting the Radical Presence of Diane di Prima

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Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers

By Mary V. Dearborn | February 28, 2024

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“Being Baldwin requires you to be free. It’s mandatory.”

By Dan Sheehan | February 21, 2024

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Kirsten Bakis Explores the Lives of Writer and Paranormalist Cult Figure Charles Fort and His Wife, Anna

By Kirsten Bakis | February 21, 2024

How <em>The Prophet</em> Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

How The Prophet Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

The Late Joan Acocella on the Complex and Contradictory Life of a New Age Icon

By Joan Acocella | February 20, 2024

The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday’s Last Live Performance

The Show Must Go On: On Billie Holiday’s Last Live Performance

Paul Alexander Chronicles the Final Months of America’s Queen of Jazz

By Paul Alexander | February 19, 2024

In a Memoriam: A Poem by Anthony Brian Smith

In a Memoriam: A Poem by Anthony Brian Smith

Remembering a Writer Gone Too Soon

By Anthony Brian Smith | February 16, 2024

Who Made Who? On the Creative Collaboration of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse

Who Made Who? On the Creative Collaboration of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse

Mark Braude Considers the Blurred Lines Between Object and Participant, Artist and Muse

By Mark Braude | February 9, 2024

Between Risk and Control: How Mark Rothko Discovered His Signature Style

Between Risk and Control: How Mark Rothko Discovered His Signature Style

Adam Greenhalgh on the American Abstract Painter's Early Years

By Adam Greenhalgh | February 7, 2024

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