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Writing Bellow's Biography While He Was Still Alive

Writing Bellow's Biography While He Was Still Alive

James Atlas on the Dangers of Befriending Your Subject

By James Atlas | September 20, 2017

The German-Jewish Refugees Who Created <em>Curious George</em>

The German-Jewish Refugees Who Created Curious George

"Theirs Was a Life of Exile and, Thereafter, Self-Invention"

By Nicholas Delbanco | September 15, 2017

How Sigmund Freud Tried to Break and Remake His Fiancée

How Sigmund Freud Tried to Break and Remake His Fiancée

"He Wanted Martha to Remember That She Was Nothing Very Special"

By Frederick Crews | August 22, 2017

John Berger Contemplates Life and Death at the Graveside of Mahmoud Darwish

John Berger Contemplates Life and Death at the Graveside of Mahmoud Darwish

A Writer and a Poet in Communion

By John Berger | August 9, 2017

When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Disappeared

When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Disappeared

Life Imitated Art for the Author of The Little Prince

By Pierre Lassus | August 1, 2017

Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

His Thinking Was Structured by Deep Time and Planetary Space

By Laura Dassow Walls | July 12, 2017

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The Superhuman Charm of Ernest Hemingway, the “Most Shot-Up Man in America”

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In Which Angela Carter Gives No F*cks

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How a Husband's Loving Biography Ruined His Wife's Reputation

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"M.L. had chosen to do was unquestionably right."

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In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett

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