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On <em>Myra Breckinridge</em> and the Life of Gore Vidal

On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

Camille Paglia Unpacks the Mores of a Different Era

By Camille Paglia | June 27, 2019

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

From the Introduction to The Journal I Did Not Keep

By Catherine Lacey | June 25, 2019

What Was Hemingway Doing in Cuba During World War II?

What Was Hemingway Doing in Cuba During World War II?

(A Navy Reconnaissance Mission Named After a Cat, Apparently)

By Andrew Feldman | June 24, 2019

On America's First Openly Gay Reporter at a Major Newspaper

On America's First Openly Gay Reporter at a Major Newspaper

The Rise of Randy Shilts, Among the First to Write About
the AIDS Epidemic

By Andrew E. Stoner | June 19, 2019

How Lakshmi Shankar Became the Voice Behind the Epic <em>Gandhi</em>

How Lakshmi Shankar Became the Voice Behind the Epic Gandhi

The Hindustani Singer Helped Give the Film Its Emotional Force

By Kavita Das | June 17, 2019

What the 39,933 Items on Peter Matthiessen's Computer Mean for the Art of Biography

What the 39,933 Items on Peter Matthiessen's Computer Mean for the Art of Biography

On the Uncertain Future Histories of Our Digital Selves

By Lance Richardson | June 13, 2019

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In Pablo Picasso's Studio During the Nazi Occupation of Paris

By Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake | June 13, 2019

Jack London, Rags to Riches and Back Again

By Joy Lanzendorfer | June 7, 2019

On Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architectural War For New York's Skyline

By Anthony Alofsin | May 29, 2019

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

The Tragic Tale of the Physicist Lev Shtrum

By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer | May 29, 2019

SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

From Paolo Parisi's Graphic Biography of a New York Legend

By Paolo Parisi | May 28, 2019

On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

On the Rebel Southern Daughter Who Fought to Expose White Supremacy

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Revisits Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin's
The Making of a Southerner

By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall | May 22, 2019

Flannery O'Connor's Two Deepest Loves Were Mayonnaise and Her Mother

Flannery O'Connor's Two Deepest Loves Were Mayonnaise and Her Mother

A Southern Gothic Writer, a Very White Condiment

By Caroline McCoy | May 17, 2019

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

Caroline Fraser: “Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, shrouded, disguised, crushed, thwarted, mocked, warped, punished, or excoriated.”

By Caroline Fraser | May 16, 2019

Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

How to Reconstruct a Life with the Public Record

By David A. Taylor | May 14, 2019

Anjelica Huston on Finding Her Father in the Writing of Lillian Ross

Anjelica Huston on Finding Her Father in the Writing of Lillian Ross

the integrity of her subject."">"She maintains her own integrity and she respects
the integrity of her subject."

By Anjelica Huston | May 3, 2019

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