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Edward Gorey, Frank O’Hara and Harvard’s Gay Underground

"Gorey and O’Hara were a subculture unto themselves."

 
By Mark Dery  December 3, 2018
Biography

On the Limits of Biofiction: Bethany Layne Talks to David Lodge

By Bethany Layne and David Lodge  November 20, 2018
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How Saul Bellow Reckoned with Money and Fame

By Zachary Leader  November 15, 2018
Biography

On the Tenacity and Bravery of a Great Journalist

By Lindsey Hilsum  November 12, 2018
Biography

Co-Parenting with Lord Byron, As Weird As It Sounds

By Miranda Seymour  November 12, 2018
Biography

How to Sell a Candidate to the Public: Andrew Jackson Edition

By David and Jeanne Heidler  November 6, 2018
Biography

The Last Days of George Orwell

By Hilary Spurling  November 2, 2018
Art

The Painting That Took 22 Years to Finish

By Joshua Rivkin  October 26, 2018
Biography

The Rise of Arthur Ashe: Tennis Star, Civil Rights Activist

By Raymond Arsenault  September 26, 2018
Biography

Hell Week: On Inner City Football in the Wake of Ferguson

By Albert Samaha  September 17, 2018
Biography

On the Birth of Princess Margaret and the Rise of Astrology as We Know It

By Craig Brown  August 6, 2018
Biography

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

By Dawn Raffel  August 3, 2018
Biography

When Wilde Met Whitman

By Michèle Mendelssohn  July 16, 2018
Biography

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

By David Lynch  July 10, 2018
Biography

On the “Future Shock” of David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs

By Jason Heller  June 19, 2018
Biography

The Young Anarchist and Future Joy of Sex Author Who Sparred with George Orwell Over World War II

By Eric Laursen  June 11, 2018
Biography

The Treacherous Start to Mary and Percy Shelley’s Marriage

By Fiona Sampson  May 31, 2018
Biography

Where Hemingway Went to Write, After Partying in Venice

By Andrea Di Robilant  May 29, 2018
Biography

On the Boyhood Classmates Who Drove Proust to Write

By Caroline Weber  May 24, 2018
Biography

Chasing an Impossible Storm

By Brantley Hargrove  May 23, 2018
Biography

How a Christmas Present Gave Harper Lee the Time to Write To Kill a Mockingbird

By Joseph Crespino  May 8, 2018
Biography

On James Baldwin’s Radical Writing for Playboy Magazine

By Joseph Vogel  April 17, 2018
Biography

James Baldwin: ‘I Did Not Want to Weep for Martin, Tears Seemed Futile’

By Jason Sokol  April 4, 2018
Biography

Alain Locke’s Controversial Vision of a “Negro Renaissance”

By Jeffrey C. Stewart  March 16, 2018
Biography

How I Ended Up Writing the Legendary Paul Robeson’s Biography

By Martin Duberman  March 5, 2018
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