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Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

Tracy Daugherty on the Chronicler of the American West

By Tracy Daugherty | September 18, 2023

First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

Loren Grush on the Media Circus Surrounding America's First Women Astronauts

By Loren Grush | September 14, 2023

Did J.D. Salinger Wield Copyright as Self-Protection?

Did J.D. Salinger Wield Copyright as Self-Protection?

"Copyright protections can stop a work from being copied, pirated, poached. They can't stop it from being misunderstood."

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 30, 2023

Remembering William Stafford, Whose Poetic Region Was All the World

Remembering William Stafford, Whose Poetic Region Was All the World

Steve Paul on the Enduring Memory of One of America's Greatest Contemporary Poets

By Steve Paul | August 28, 2023

Leonora Carrington's Days as a Debutante and Art Student

Leonora Carrington's Days as a Debutante and Art Student

Joanna Moorhead on the Artist's Teenage Years and Relationship with Max Ernst

By Joanna Moorhead | August 22, 2023

"Woman, Jew, Intellectual:" How the Nazi State Saw Hannah Arendt

Wolfram Eilenberger on the Social Construction of the Self Under Totalitarianism

By Wolfram Eilenberger | August 10, 2023

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Art For Everybody: Ann Magnuson on Her Friend, Keith Haring

Art For Everybody: Ann Magnuson on Her Friend, Keith Haring

“Even if you didn’t think you could do something, he believed you could, and then you did.”

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Mikki Kendall Remembers the Indelible Work and Full Complexity of bell hooks

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“Creating for more than the white gaze or the male gaze was the goal.”

By Mikki Kendall | July 20, 2023

Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language

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Andrew Leland on His Own Weakening Vision, Braille, and Making a Commitment to Read with Visual Aids

By Andrew Leland | July 18, 2023

Craig Brown on Bringing Humor to Writing About The Beatles

Craig Brown on Bringing Humor to Writing About The Beatles

The Author of One Two Three Four on the Baillie Gifford Prize Podcast, Read Smart

By Read Smart | July 18, 2023

Hiding In Plain Sight: Patrick Gale on the Life and Work of Poet Charles Causley

Hiding In Plain Sight: Patrick Gale on the Life and Work of Poet Charles Causley

“Only then did I reread the poems, to see how they might be transformed by the things I had learned.”

By Patrick Gale | July 18, 2023

Talking to the Mafia About Michael Jackson, Donald Trump, and Jimmy Hoffa

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In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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