Hilton Als
Hilton Als, a staff writer at The New Yorker, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He is the editor of “ God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin.”
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Hilton Als’s 2011 Profile of the actress and activist Jane Fonda. When she was young, Fonda said, “being a woman meant being a victim, being the loser, being the one that’ll be destroyed.”
books ·
A new biography of Christopher Isherwood.
profiles ·
Derek Walcott is writing a poetry of the Caribbean.
profiles ·
From 2003: As an editor, author, and professor, Morrison has fostered a generation of black writers, Hilton Als writes.
show business ·
In the eighties, Swinton became the avant-garde’s Garbo, a manifestation of ideas in the flesh. Hilton Als spoke to the elusive anti-star, in 2002.
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Hilton Als on the writer Carson McCullers: her tumultuous personal life, her professional ambition, and her penetrating novels.
a critic at large ·
Hilton Als writes about Flannery O’Connor’s portrayal of race and religion in the unreconstructed South.
a reporter at large ·
Hilton Als on June and Jennifer Gibbons, the British twins who retreated into their own world, with its own language—and then went on an arson spree.
profiles ·
A Profile of the comedian and actor by Hilton Als.
profiles ·
Hilton Als’s 1998 Profile of the performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery, whose personal aesthetic was his form of rebellion—his massive body both his weapon and his shield.
a critic at large ·
Hilton Als on the private and public lives of the author of “The Fire Next Time” and “Giovanni’s Room.”
books ·
Hilton Als on the photographer who looked when the rest of us turned away.
downtown chronicles ·
Hilton Als on Dorothy Dean, a black woman who became a galvanizing force for white gay New Yorkers.
the talk of the town ·
The former model Toukie Smith has a big voice, a big smile, and an unbridled enthusiasm for things quintessentially herself, Hilton Als writes—all of which she has poured into her restaurant venture.
profiles ·
PROFILE of Robert Wilson, playwright, and detailed examination of his recent play, "The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin", put on last winter at the …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Alexander Marshack's innovative calendric interpretation of prehistoric cave art. It would appear unlikely that an untrained …
profiles ·
PROFILE of the members of Akbar Hassan's family, who are among the 27,000 Uganda Asian settlers forced to leave for England when Gen. Amin expelled …