Drag in Tbilisi

In a country where queer life remains under threat, Georgia’s drag artists perform for one another — and for history. Photographs by Jonathan Moore

Spying on Amelia

Biographer Laurie Gwen Shapiro brings Harriet the Spy’s nosy tenacity to her new book on Amelia Earhart and George Putnam.

Fear, Love, and Sally Bowles

How Christopher Isherwood turned a haunted childhood into some of the most daring literature of the last century.

The Art of Maigret

Redesigning a detective's legacy, one silhouette at a time.

Where I Wrote… Flashlight

National Book Award winner Susan Choi found the final key to her novel Flashlight not at home, but at an Italian residency

Squid Games

Jean Baptiste Vérany's Forgotten Legacy

“Before I Made Her Famous and the Rot Set In”

In her immaculate documentary, Blue Road, Sinéad O’Shea pieces together the life of Edna O’Brien from diaries, archive footage, and the furious marginalia of a man determined to diminish her.