The Power of Joan Didion, and More

Brittle arms, unsentimental gaze, nervy glamour: How to make sense of the photographic power and presence of Joan Didion?... more »

Obsessed with precociousness, our literary culture overlooks two late masterworks from Cormac McCarthy... more »

Leonardo was drawn to youth and beauty. He was also obsessed by strange, diseased, "monstrous" faces, which he s…