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In ‘Monsters,’ Dederer’s new book of essays, she examines her own conflicted responses to consuming art created by people she knows have harmed others

From tough love to unwavering enthusiasm, a look at some notable relationships throughout history between female artists and their protégées.

You're asking the wrong question when you ask, "Can I still listen to David Bowie?"

Monsters: A Fans Dilemma

In “Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma,” Claire Dederer asks whether it’s possible, in light of #MeToo, to separate an artist from their art.

Author Robert Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb have worked together for 50 years. It all began with "The Power Broker," Caro's biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, a doorstop of a book that was published in 1974 and became a surprise bestseller and influential work of American nonfiction.

What might it mean​ for the way we think about abortion if we take seriously the problem of what fictional narrative...

“The way the future used to be.”

Instead of being paid serious money, writers were treated to rituals of gratitude and expressions of friendship: lunches...

When Anthony Akerman left apartheid SA in the seventies, there was no love lost between the writer and the country whose citizenship he would soon renounce. Over a decade later, a trip that took him to neighbouring Zimbabwe and Botswana sparked a homesickness that would leave him feeling foreve...