Emily Bobrow

His plays ask audiences to confront their own complicity in prejudice

Yiyun Li turns a tragic personal loss into a profoundly intimate work of fiction

A new two-part retrospective has opened at the Guggenheim 30 years after the artist’s death

“Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom”, a previously unpublished piece from Plath’s college days, is full of the themes that would inform her best work

Humans are uniquely ill-suited to addressing environmental problems. But our shortcomings can be used against us

An accomplished 19th-century physician and asylum director looks back at his career, one that has been paved with secrets and betrayals.

The photos Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst took of each other showed a young couple in love. They became an important public record of transgender life....

Hilma af Klint’s innovations have been underestimated for a century

The colour pictures Vivian Maier took on the streets of New York and Chicago show how she found beauty in the everyday

A new graphic adaptation is faithful to its spirit. But her proper medium is words

Technological advances have imposed new expectations for productivity that make us feel we have less time than we had before

In “What the Constitution Means to Me” the playwright reflects on the document’s failures and its possibilities

“My clients who were women of color didn’t get the same attention as my white clients.”

The intimacy of Anne Lamott’s prose makes many readers feel the author is an old friend. Sometimes, alas, old friends can disappoint us.

John Lennon features in Tom Barbash’s novel of New York in 1980