He made films, video art and photographs, but was best known as a pioneering art critic and mordant novelist.
Category: Writing and Writers
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Antonio Skármeta, Who Wrote of Chile’s Tears and Turmoil, Dies at 83
His literary career traced the arc of his country’s modern political journey in stories about ordinary citizens facing repression and arbitrary government.
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New York’s Old Guard Meets Feeld, a Very Sex-Positive Dating App
The literary establishment welcomes Feeld, a very sex-positive dating app, at a party on the Upper East Side.
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The Holocaust’s Grandchildren Are Speaking Now
Three generations on, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.
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Hollywood Can Be Hell for a Writer, as Two New Books Remind Us
Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but the tragic ending was all hers, while Bruce Eric Kaplan manages to find the mordant laughs in today’s industry foibles.
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Tina Brown, the Queen of Legacy Media, Takes Her Diary to Substack
She made her name leading glossy magazines. Now she’s joining the newsletter flock.
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Modern Love Stories That Changed Readers’ Lives
For 20 years, Modern Love has recorded peoples’ lives. The column has also had real-life reverberations on readers.
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Modern Love Essayists Write Letters to Their Younger Selves
We asked essayists to write a letter to the person they were when they published their Modern Love essay. Here’s what they shared.
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Where Did Modern Love Come From?
The column’s founding editor and the former Styles editor discuss the origin of Modern Love (which wasn’t originally going to be called Modern Love).
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Exploring Literary Dublin
The Irish city, once home to the likes of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, is known for its bookstores, libraries and pubs, where writers found inspiration over pints of Guinness.
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Exploring Literary Dublin
The Irish city, once home to the likes of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, is known for its bookstores, libraries and pubs, where writers found inspiration over pints of Guinness.