Writers
Tocqueville's America
The French author's piquant observations on American gumption and political hypocrisy sound remarkably contemporary 200 years after his birth
The Power and the Glory
She bought the electric drill to get a tidier household. Then she found out about the secret sisterhood
Lucky Man
A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author's skeptical father might embrace
Prescient and Accounted For
A century after his death, novelist Jules Verne, who imagined Moon flight and deep-sea voyages, looks more prophetic than ever
Trouble Spots
Two of our writers get into the thick of things in Uganda and Afghanistan
James Boswell's Scotland
The author of the Life of Samuel Johnson spent much of his own life trying to escape the country of his birth
Supremely Wilde
How an 1882 portrait of the flamboyant man of letters reached the highest court in the land and changed U.S. law forever
Paper Chase
Looking up his high school Permanent Record Card leaves our author curiously grateful for his failings
Rich in Talent
Ed Rich gave magazines a whirl. And then some
Matter of the Heart
Graham Greene's letters to his paramour, Catherine Walston, trace the hazy line between life and fiction
Goya and His Women
An exhibition at Washington's National Gallery of Art takes a fresh look at one of Spain's most celebrated artists and the women he painted
Behind the Lines: Role Models
Our writers explore new worlds in time and space
Silk Robes and Cell Phones
Three decades after Frances FitzGerald won a Pulitzer Prize for Fire in the Lake, her classic work on Vietnam, she returned with photojournalist Mary Cross
October Surprise
Any other year, giving reactionary author V. S. Naipaul a Nobel Prize would have sparked debate
No Place Like Home
Guidebook writer John Thompson discovers a under-appreciated get-away - at the end of his own driveway
Editor at Large
Editor Alexis Doster, gets his pants scared off at summer camp.
The World According to Wells
Best-known for sci-fi classics like The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells became one of the most controversial writers of his day
His Heart Was in the Highlands
Robert Burns' fierce pride, penetrating wit and perfect ear for language gave Scotlandand the worldan imperishable legacy of poetry and song
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