28 artists, 2 saints
“Like Sontag, like every great critic, [Joan] Acocella is subjective, uncompromising.” (Don’t miss Acocella’s 2005 essay on Hilary Mantel.)
“Like Sontag, like every great critic, [Joan] Acocella is subjective, uncompromising.” (Don’t miss Acocella’s 2005 essay on Hilary Mantel.)
Correspondence and official papers reveal the desperate efforts of Anne Frank’s family to gain entry to the U.S. or Cuba before they were forced into hiding.
George Orwell’s childhood friend and sweetheart, Jacintha Buddicom, may have omitted the truth about their falling-out from her 1974 memoir.
A writer who wrangled with his publisher over cover art, and lost, enlisted an artist to “produce a sticker that can be placed over the original paperback cover.” (Also via.)