From The Master

from The New Yorker Pursuit as Happiness By Ernest Hemingway Photo illustration by Ben Giles That year we had planned to fish for marlin off the Cuban coast for a month. The month started the tenth of April and by the tenth of May we had twenty-five marlin and the...

“Of course I’m Meg”

from The New York Times In a New Collection of Old Stories, Madeleine L’Engle Is Back By Heidi Pitlor According to Madeleine L’Engle, who died in 2007, “You have to write the book that wants to be written.”Credit…Sigrid Estrada In “A Wrinkle in Time,” an...

Lord Of The Real

from The Guardian The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman by Rutger...

MILFology

from Inside Hook The Long and Decorated Literary History of the MILF From Chaucer to Mrs. Robinson, one of literature’s most subversive archetypes is also a surprisingly old one BY ELIOTT GROVER KRISTEN LIU-WONG “How many of you,” I ask a roomful of half-awake...

Man Myth Warhol

from The Observer New Biography ‘Warhol’ Separates the Man From the Myth By David D’Arcy Andy in Studio, New York, Union Square, 1976. Michael Childers Warhol, by Blake Gopnik, begins moments after the militant feminist and Factory hanger-on Valerie Solanas shot...