The Contemporary Novel
In which Eliot analyzes Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and D.H. Lawrence.
Showing 25 articles matching Lawrence Wright.
In which Eliot analyzes Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and D.H. Lawrence.
T.S. Eliot The Times Literary Supplement Aug 2015 10min Permalink
An argument on the meaning of Cubism settled.
Lawrence Weschler The Believer Nov 2008 Permalink
A journalist on the troll who tried to destroy her.
Dune Lawrence Businessweek Mar 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of Theo Epstein, the architect behind the Chicago Cubs.
Wright Thompson ESPN Sep 2016 20min Permalink
On the strange relationship between Lionel Messi and his Argentinian hometown.
Wright Thompson ESPN Oct 2012 Permalink
The perspective-bending art of identical twins Trevor and Ryan Oakes.
Lawrence Weschler The Virginia Quarterly Review Apr 2009 25min Permalink
Inside the Cleveland Indians clubhouse during their 22 game win streak.
Wright Thompson ESPN Sep 2017 15min Permalink
Rukmini Callimachi covers ISIS for The New York Times and is the host of Caliphate.
“My major takeaway that I have come away with in this work is go to the enemy. Talk to the enemy. I think that the way that Al Qaeda and ISIS is typically covered is by reporters who just speak to officials in Washington. ... That’s only one side of the story. And I have learned so much by seeking out their documents, reading their propaganda ... speaking to them themselves.”
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At 90 years old, Lawrence Hill’s mother was ready to end it all on her own terms, but Canada’s assisted-dying law was too strict to allow that.
Lawrence Hill The Globe and Mail Jun 2018 30min Permalink
An interview with Lawrence Schiller, himself one of the great interviewers of his time, whose research fueled Norman Mailer’s Executioner’s Song.
Lawrence Schiller, Suzanne Snider The Believer May 2010 25min Permalink
What really happened between the plaintiffs in Lawrence vs. Texas, the case that ended anti-sodomy laws?
Dahlia Lithwick New Yorker Mar 2012 15min Permalink
Searching for Jimmy Robinson, a boxer who fought Muhammad Ali in 1961, then disappeared.
Wright Thompson ESPN Dec 2009 35min
An investigation into the disappearance of 24-year-old Rebecca Coriam from aboard the Disney Wonder opens the strange and insular world of cruise employees, who vanish mysteriously at alarming rates.
Jon Ronson Guardian Nov 2011 20min
In 1938, Gaines was the catalyst for a pivotal civil rights court case. One year later, he was gone.
Chad Garrison Riverfront Times Apr 2007 15min
The father of the first kid featured on a milk carton thinks he knows who kidnapped the him 30 years ago.
Lisa R. Cohen New York May 2009 15min
The search for Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, began in 1945. The unending quest tore his family apart.
Joshua Prager Wall Street Journal Feb 2009 20min
In 1926, at the age of 12, Barbara Follett published a critically acclaimed novel. Fourteen years later, she disappeared.
Paul Collins Lapham's Quarterly Dec 2010
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The World Cup and Argentina’s “Dirty War.”
Wright Thompson ESPN the Magazine Jun 2014 10min Permalink
Brazil’s restless youth in the lead-up to the World Cup.
Wright Thompson ESPN Dec 2013 30min Permalink
The mysterious death of one of college basketball’s most promising coaches.
Wright Thompson ESPN Apr 2015 25min Permalink
The people who survived Katrina, ten years later.
Wright Thompson ESPN the Magazine Aug 2015 25min Permalink
An investigation into the true identity of a high school basketball player.
Wright Thompson ESPN Apr 2012 Permalink
The plight of the uninsured in a red state.
Kai Wright The Nation Jun 2015 25min Permalink
A profile of Ernie Adams, Bill Belichick’s mysterious right hand man.
Wright Thompson ESPN Feb 2008 15min Permalink
Searching for Jimmy Robinson, a boxer who fought Muhammad Ali in 1961, then disappeared.
Wright Thompson ESPN Dec 2009 35min Permalink
A profile of Jordan at 50.
Wright Thompson ESPN Feb 2013 Permalink
He has been in the NBA for 50 years. He’s won nine championships. And he can’t walk away.
Wright Thompson ESPN Apr 2017 30min Permalink
A conversation on the “bedeviling sorts of indeterminacies one encounters the deeper one drills.”
Errol Morris, Lawrence Weschler Public Books Jun 2012 25min Permalink
In 1975, Jackie O., widow to a president and tycoon, decided to become a literary editor.
Greg Lawrence Vanity Fair Jan 2011 30min Permalink
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A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.
Lawrence Osborne Harper's Mar 2011 20min Permalink