Inventing the Alphabet, Darryl Pinckney in New York, and More

A young man arrives in New York, hoping to become a writer. He needs a guide.

A young man arrives in New York, hoping to become a writer. He needs a guide. For Darryl Pinckney, that was Elizabeth Hardwick... more »

How radical is radical art? After all, today’s avant-garde can always congeal into tomorrow’s orthodoxy... more »

The journalistic variant of the psychoanalytic case study was pioneered by Janet Malcolm. Her successor, R…