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The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part IV

Norman Mailer snubbed Lawrence Schiller when accepting the Pulitzer Prize for The Executioner’s Song. But that didn’t stop Schiller from cutting Mailer in on his latest exclusive: Lee Harvey Oswald’s K.G.B. files

The Cult of Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Norwegian writer inspires a reverence bordering on worship among his mostly male fans. He can bring grown men to tears with a single sentence

Postmortem of a Marriage

Gone with the Winds

How an unexpected shift in the weather brought news of the Chernobyl disaster to the West—and marked the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union

Heil Psychos!

Promising Young Women

Jean Seberg, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Agnès Varda … a coffee-table book pays tribute to the women of the French New Wave

Pretty Privilege for Sale

GLP-1s are making it possible to rig the genetic lottery. What happens to the people who can’t afford them?