So wrote author and cultural critic William Deresiewicz in “The Quality to be Tragic,” his sharp and insightful essay about Elizabeth Hardwick. Deresiewicz is a writer and thinker I admire, and after ...

The National Book Award winner smuggles profound reflections on pain and loss into novels of deceptive lightness. By Wyatt Mason In addition to her prizewinning writing, she was known for editing the ...

In addition to her prizewinning writing, she was known for editing the correspondence between the poet Robert Lowell and the writer Elizabeth Hardwick. By Neil Genzlinger Saskia Hamilton, a ...