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Leslie Jamison remembers Amy Winehouse, who passed away nine years ago in Camden, London, at age 27.
The Ladies of Llangollen fell in love, ran away together, and lived a scholarly life of “delicious seclusion” — secluded, that is, except for all the visitors.
In the first war, Joseph Gray used his art to reveal his fellow soldiers. In the next war, he used it to hide them.
Why do we feel like we own celebrities—not just their art or their products, but their images and their personal lives?
Dining out with courtsiders, a rogue, impish species in the tennis ecosystem.
In 1945, Les Temps modernes shocked the world with its pessimism and grim determination, and catapulted its founders into intellectual superstardom.
Recent novels by Alan Hollinghurst, John Boyne, and Tim Murphy experiment with the idea of progress over time.
“Rebirth therapy” was meant to help a troubled girl start over, but it ended her life instead.
After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.
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