Two of our writers get into the thick of things in Uganda and Afghanistan
The author of the Life of Samuel Johnson spent much of his own life trying to escape the country of his birth
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How an 1882 portrait of the flamboyant man of letters reached the highest court in the land and changed U.S. law forever
Looking up his high school Permanent Record Card leaves our author curiously grateful for his failings
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Ed Rich gave magazines a whirl. And then some
Graham Greene’s letters to his paramour, Catherine Walston, trace the hazy line between life and fiction
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
Our writers explore new worlds in time and space
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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
Any other year, giving reactionary author V. S. Naipaul a Nobel Prize would have sparked debate
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Guidebook writer John Thompson discovers a under-appreciated get-away - at the end of his own driveway
Editor Alexis Doster, gets his pants scared off at summer camp.
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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WARNING: Words fill Anu Garg’s dreams, and waking hours too. He shares his favorites on the Web with thousands
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Andrew Carroll: Man of Letters
From poetry to war correspondence, this 31-year-old has been spreading words with a missionary’s zeal
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An American in Bourron-Marlotte
When they moved here in 1976, the author and his wife thought they knew all about the French. How wrong they were
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