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Biography

Biography

On the Ambitious Beginnings of China’s Influential Soong Sisters

By Jung Chang  December 5, 2019
Celebrity

Elaine Stritch’s Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due

By Leah Rosenzweig  December 4, 2019
In Memoriam

On Brian Doyle’s Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

By David James Duncan  December 3, 2019
Reading Women

Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict

By Reading Women  November 27, 2019
Celebrity

How Ian McKellen Almost Didn’t Play Gandalf

By Garry O'Connor  November 26, 2019
Family Stories

A Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster

By Sarah Abrevaya Stein  November 22, 2019
Reading Women

Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women’s Fiction Award

By Reading Women  November 20, 2019
Mathematics

On the Sci-Fi Pioneer Who Brought Math to the Masses

By David Lindsay Roberts  November 19, 2019
Civil Rights

The Education of a Civil Rights Hero

By Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe  November 19, 2019
Art

Robert Polito on the Art of Iconoclastic Film Critic Manny Farber

By Robert Polito  November 18, 2019
Art History

On the Humorous Surrealism
of Mimi Parent

By Penelope Rosemont  November 14, 2019
Love

Broken Heart? Immanuel Kant is Here to Help

By Marie Robert  November 13, 2019
Art History

Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

By John Richardson  November 13, 2019
Public Intellectuals

On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

By Nicholas Buccola  November 12, 2019
The Writing Life

Elizabeth Bishop in Key West, Island of Her Dreams

By Thomas Travisano  November 12, 2019
Literary History

On the Difficulty of Convincing Samuel Beckett of Just About Anything

By Deirdre Bair  November 11, 2019
Writing Life

The Wild, Impassioned World of Anaïs Nin’s Diaries

By Kim Krizan  November 8, 2019
Nazis

Hans Fallada, the Anti-Nazi Writer Who Reluctantly Served the Reich

By Geoff Wilkes  November 8, 2019
Reading Women

Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women’s Nonfiction Award

By Reading Women  November 6, 2019
Civics

Nancy Pelosi on Looking to Eleanor Roosevelt for Hope

By Nancy Pelosi  November 5, 2019
In Conversation

On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
Post-Truth Age

By Joanna Kavenna  October 25, 2019
Icons

The Gloriously Understated Career of Elaine Stritch

By Alexandra Jacobs  October 22, 2019
Diarists

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

By Alejandro Zambra  October 22, 2019
News and Culture

The Trial of Harry Houdini

By Joe Posnanski  October 22, 2019
True Crime

Murder in Paradise: The Tale of the Baroness and the Bohemians

By Mars van Grunsven  October 18, 2019
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