Biography
Life Lessons
The Wee Small Facts
The Missing Subject
Before Sainthood
Superwoman
Anatomy of Melancholy
Art and Ugliness
The story of the abusive, alcoholic writer is a familiar one, and we generally make allowances for such a figure. He may have been a bum, but he wrote like an angel. We can forgive a great deal if the work is good enough. But what happens if a writer is something worse than a bum? How does a work of literary art stand in relation to its author if its author is truly abhorrent? READ MORE >>
No Prize
If you were an immigrant sailing into New York harbor at the close of the nineteenth century, the first building to catch your eye would have been the headquarters of the New York World, the tallest structure in Manhattan. Twenty stories high, and topped by a gilded dome that reflected light forty miles out to sea, the World building was—as James McGrath Morris writes in his new biography of Joseph Pulitzer—“a temple of America’s new mass media.” READ MORE >>
