More than One-Liners: A New Biography of Gore Vidal
"Perhaps that's the best we can say about anybody who's gone: we could do with him now."
"Perhaps that's the best we can say about anybody who's gone: we could do with him now."
Mark StoreyOct 20, 2015
Weighing in at a hefty 670 pages, "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink" is an impressively detailed, career-spanning narrative.
Joe BonomoOct 11, 2015
It is difficult not to romanticize the Havel story.
Wendy WillisSep 30, 2015
Jan Gaye, Marvin Gaye's second wife, has finally written her own book, a memoir called After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye.
Lary WallaceSep 18, 2015
A memoir of a former petty black crook who reforms himself in prison becomes one of the landmark nonfiction works about the pre-civil rights African...
Shehryar FazliSep 17, 2015
Houman Barekat on Robert Roper's "Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita."
Houman BarekatSep 12, 2015
Cora Du Bois was one of the first female anthropologists and a talented ethnographer whose work focused on social psychology.
Laura NaderSep 1, 2015
"Much of Didion's writing about LA reads not as accurate description of the city but as penance for her great sin of leaving New York."
Colin DickeyAug 23, 2015
Wendy C. Ortiz on being a writer living in Hollywood who struggles with economic pressures, addiction, shame, and sexuality.
Lauren Eggert-CroweAug 7, 2015
Ask a person on the street about William Goyen, and you're likely to get a blank stare. Ask a writer, and you'll see a slow change come over her face...
Peter GrandboisAug 6, 2015
Kawashima Yoshiko was a cross-dressing Japanese spy who commanded her own army.
Tobie Meyer-FongAug 4, 2015
Suzanne Berne reviews Viviane Forrester's biography on the life of Virginia Woolf.
Suzanne BerneJul 31, 2015
I started the sensationally titled "Words Without Music" with trepidation.
Glen RovenJul 25, 2015
Peter Birkenhead reviews Terry Alford's biography of John Wilkes Booth.
Peter BirkenheadJul 22, 2015
By choosing love, tranquility, and comfort, in how did i get here? Jesse Browner despairs that he has sold himself out on the most fundamental level.
Karen KarboJul 17, 2015
Mario Vargas Llosa on loving bullfighting as a dance, a sport, and an artistic influence.
Bill HillmannJul 7, 2015
A new memoir by ex-junkie cum dad Jerry Stahl on aging and the radical weirdness of fatherhood.
Tony O’NeillJul 5, 2015
Steve Wasserman's opus on Susan Sontag, critic and crusader.
Steve WassermanJul 1, 2015
Two men find themselves on opposite ends of a battlefield. One was General Andrew Jackson — the other was John Ross, a fighter with the Cherokee...
Andrew ZaleskiJun 19, 2015
John Updike never wanted a biography written about him.
Paul StrassfieldJun 13, 2015
A review of the first volume of Zachary Leader's new biography of Saul Bellow.
Shehryar FazliJun 11, 2015
How James Merrill went from a poetic "finical interior decorator" to one of the most accomplished verse technicians of the 20th century.
Calista McRaeMay 23, 2015
James Boswell’s restless curiosity and his desire to sit at the feet of greatness and listen made him the ur-TED talk audience member.
Josh EmmonsMay 13, 2015
In his new biography, John Szwed argues Billie Holiday was a method actor: she burrowed to the core of the song, determined what type of person might...
Stephen DeusnerMay 12, 2015