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.

Lore Segal wrote the Great American Novel you never read (and should)

“I’m a helpless contrarian - say something to me, and I will check it out from the other side.”

The Great Escape

How Thomas Allen Crafts New Tales from Old Pulp

When Lucy Sante left her “pathetic ex-husband.”

Post-transition, the newly-confident author of Low Life has lost her hangdog expression but not her sharp, critical wit or shrewdness.