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The Unapologetic Politics <br>of Howard Fast

The Unapologetic Politics
of Howard Fast

Mark Harris on the Writer Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy

By Mark Harris | December 6, 2019

Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Liesl Schillinger on the French Novelist Who Wrote
Powerfully of the Immigrant Experience

By Liesl Schillinger | December 5, 2019

On the Ambitious Beginnings of China's Influential Soong Sisters

On the Ambitious Beginnings of China's Influential Soong Sisters

Jung Chang Recounts Ei-Ling Soongs' First Journey to America

By Jung Chang | December 5, 2019

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

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

On Alexandra Jacobs' Biography of an Icon Still Here

By Leah Rosenzweig | December 4, 2019

On Brian Doyle's Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

On Brian Doyle's Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

David James Duncan Remembers the Late Great Writer
Who Tried to "Stare God in the Eye"

By David James Duncan | December 3, 2019

Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict

Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict

The Shadow King Author
on Reading Women

By Reading Women | November 27, 2019

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How Ian McKellen Almost Didn't Play Gandalf

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A Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster

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

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David Lindsay Roberts Considers the Career of E.T. Bell

By David Lindsay Roberts | November 19, 2019

The Education of a Civil Rights Hero

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Dovey Johnson Roundtree on Life at Spelman College

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

Robert Polito on the Art of Iconoclastic Film Critic Manny Farber

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“Much as his criticism resists paraphrase, Manny’s paintings after 1972 elude ready description.”

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On the Humorous Surrealism <br>of Mimi Parent

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Penelope Rosemont Remembers Her Friend,
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Broken Heart? Immanuel Kant is Here to Help

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Sometimes, the Best Advice Comes From an Old Dead German

By Marie Robert | November 13, 2019

Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

John Richardson on getting to know “the antithesis of Picasso—cool, meditative, at peace.”

By John Richardson | November 13, 2019

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

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

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