Writing and Writers – Page 51

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.

By Sam Roberts

Why does the act of stepping away from a creative vocation still have the power to shock?

By Ligaya Mishan

This portrait of the musician Jon Batiste and the author Suleika Jaouad follows an artistic couple through ambition and adversity.

By Ben Kenigsberg

His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades and added an important perspective for Washington’s cognoscenti.

By Robert D. McFadden