S. N. Behrman’s 1951 Profile of the legendary art dealer Joseph Duveen, whose clients included J. P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and others.
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Richard H. Rovere on the 1964 Presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater.
Part 2 of Truman Capote’s legendary report about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.
Gabriel García Márquez explores the ruins of colonialism and capitalism in this 1976 story about a solitary, undying despot in the “house of power,” translated by Gregory Rabassa.
Fiction, from 1990: “I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you.”
Elizabeth Kolbert’s 2000 Profile of Regis Philbin, America’s beloved host of the game-show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.”