Seabiscuit

Betting on Seabiscuit

Laura Hillenbrand beat the odds to write the hit horse-racing saga while fighting chronic fatigue syndrome, a disorder starting to reveal its secrets

Working rapidly in the West, Catlin focused on faces (as in a 1832 portrait of Pawnee warrior La-dà³o-ke-a) and filled in details later.

George Catlin’s Obsession

An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. asks: Did his work exploit or advance the American Indian?

A conference session including Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Joseph Stalin, William D. Leahy, Joseph E. Davies, James F. Byrnes, and Harry S. Truman.

Dividing the Spoils

Michael Beschloss re-creates the 1945 Potsdam Conference at which Harry Truman found his presidential voice and determined the shape of postwar Europe

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Just the Right Touch

By introducing a note of modesty, Marilyn Monroe’s gloves actually heightened her come-hither allure

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Smithsonian Notable Books for Children 2002

Smithsonian Notable Books for Children 2002

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Label Babel

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

The Mexican artist’s myriad faces, stranger-than-fiction biography and powerful paintings come to vivid life in a new film

A New York residence designed by Lin is adaptable, "like origami or a transformer toy," says the architect in her studio with Ranch the cat.

Monumental Achievement

Our 2002 profile of architect Maya Lin that marked the 20th year of the Vietnam Memorial

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Unfazed by All the Buzz

The portrait that took the photographic world by swarm

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Providential Happening

A fiery installation draws crowds in Providence, Rhode Island, illuminating a “daylighting” trend

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The Genius Within; The Backbone of the World

Book Reviews

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Preparing for the Best

Thanks to the mega-selling Worst-Case Scenario handbooks, we now know how to cope with charging bulls, plunging elevators and runaway locomotives

American Will Thompson (with his take on Goya's Young Woman with a Fan) has been copying at the Louvre since 1994.

Master Class

Like generations of painters before them, artists from around the globe go to Paris to copy the masterpieces at the Louvre

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Politically Correct

Artist Peter Waddell’s scrupulously researched paintings of the U.S. Capitol bring history to life

A number of mechanisms used by common antibiotics to deal with bacteria and ways by which bacteria become resistant to them.

Book Excerpt: Supergerm Warfare

Dragon’s drool, frog’s glands and shark’s stomachs have all been recruited for the fight against drug-resistant bacteria

The eye-catching cigarette packages in Johnson's collection served as advertisements as well as containers, testaments to legions of company artists. English Craven A's, American One-Elevens and Scottish Cuba Blends are from the first half of the 20th century.

Pack Rat

First Virgil Johnson gave up smoking. Then he gave up his breathtaking collection of tobacco-nalia

The Blue Lagoon

Eye in the Sky

A French photographer’s aerial portraits of Iceland’s Blue Lagoon, cotton bales in Ivory Coast, a tulip field in Holland document a world of fragile beauty

As the natives got ready to serve A midget explorer named Merve; "This meal will be brief," Said the cannibal chief, "For this is at best an hors d'oeuvre." —Ed Cunningham

The Limerick is Furtive and Mean…

From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses

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Pursuing Perfection

The Summer of My Greek Taverna: A Memoir

Book Reviews: The Summer of My Greek Taverna

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