- The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the literary archive of the University of Texas at Austin, contains thirty-six million manuscript pages, five million photographs, a million books, and ten thousand objects, including a lock of Byron’s curly brown hair…
- Slide Show: Images from the archives
BOOKS
The Lady
Vanishes
- by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Two biographies search for the real Hillary Clinton.
- Kolbert profiles Clinton (2003)
THE ART WORLD
Heavy Metal
- by Peter Schjeldahl
- A Richard Serra retrospective.
- Calvin Tomkins on
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DÉBUT FICTION
Sweetheart Sorrow
- by David Hoon Kim
- In French, it was easier to say such things.
- Q. & A.: Kim on translation and identity
- Marie Micheline went to live with my uncle Joseph and aunt Denise for the same reason that my brother and I did: our parents had disappeared…
- The New Yorker Out Loud: Danticat talks with Deborah Treisman
- A story by Danticat (2005)
- A. M. Homes on “Bonnie and Clyde”
- Jeffrey Eugenides on the drive-in
- More fiction writers on summer movies
THE FINANCIAL PAGE
Be Our Guest!
- by James Surowiecki
- Hostility toward the immigration bill is misguided.
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POP MUSIC
Well Suited
- by Sasha Frere-Jones
- Spoon’s scrupulous new album.
- Frere-Jones listens to Spoon
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Bad Behavior
- by David Denby
- “Mr. Brooks,” “Crazy Love,” “Ocean’s Thirteen.”
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