The decision by an arts journal to allow a famous artist to veto a historian’s essay about his work created “a chilling effect on the critical culture,” a journalism expert said.
Category: Writing and Writers
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Ted Morgan, 91, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Writer Straddled Two Cultures
An esteemed journalist and author, he was born to a French count but later shed his aristocratic roots (and name) to became a U.S. citizen.
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David Yoon on How He Learned to Spend Money on Love
I didn’t see the point of investing in candlelit dinners or surprise gifts. Then I met Nicki, who taught me that romance is not an extravagance.
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Melissa Febos on a Financially Controlling Boyfriend — and Girlfriend
The common denominator between the two relationships had not been gender or sexual orientation. It had been me.
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Dhonielle Clayton Is Working to Make the Book World More Diverse
Her solution? A packaging business that sells ideas for commercial genre fiction featuring characters from broadly diverse backgrounds.
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Jane Wodening, Experimental Film Star and Intrepid Writer, Dies at 87
For 30 years she collaborated with the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, her husband, often appearing on camera. After they divorced, she lived off the grid and wrote about her life.
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Hemingway, Jack London and Unabomber Typewriters Go to Auction
Coming to auction is a clattering collection of machines once owned by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Temple, Andy Rooney and … the Unabomber.
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Read Your Way Through Madrid
Like many who call Madrid home, Elena Medel was born elsewhere, but forged her identity in the Spanish capital. Here, she recommends books about this city that “refuses to be reduced to an ideal.”
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John Nichols, Author of ‘The Milagro Beanfield War,’ Dies at 83
After decamping from New York to New Mexico, he wrote what was, for a time, among the most widely read novels about Latinos.
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When Women Artists Choose Mothering Over Making Work
Why does the act of stepping away from a creative vocation still have the power to shock?
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‘American Symphony’ Review: Intimate Harmony
This portrait of the musician Jon Batiste and the author Suleika Jaouad follows an artistic couple through ambition and adversity.
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Charles Peters, Neoliberal Founder of The Washington Monthly, Dies at 96
His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades and added an important perspective for Washington’s cognoscenti.