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They Don’t Make ’Em Like That Anymore
G. Edward White’s new biography explores the life of Robert H. Jackson, a Supreme Court justice revered by jurists from both ends of the political spectrum.
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn
Doing Someone Else’s Crossword
The Francis Crick of Matthew Cobb’s new biography was both the consummate insider and a scientific outlier.
Après Bowie, le déluge
On the 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s death, three books consider the rock star from new angles.
Have Democrats Learned Anything?
Was Nevada Democrat Harry Reid truly a master of the Senate, or at least a game changer, as Jon Ralston’s new biography argues?
Franny’s Papers
What was lost when Claire Douglas’s archive burned.
And I Never Looked Back
Tracing the California lineage of Charles Bukowski’s publisher, Black Sparrow Press, and its passionate founder, John Martin.
In Memory of William Faulkner This Business Will Be Closed From 2:00 to 2:15 P.M. Today
LARB presents an excerpt from Gayle Feldman’s forthcoming biography of Bennett Cerf, the legendary American publisher.
Until My People Are Free
Diba Mohtasham speaks with pop star Faegheh Atashin, a.k.a. Googoosh, about her new memoir.
A Radical Functionalist
Lois Parkinson Zamora explores “Architect Hannes Meyer and Radical Modernism” by Georg Leidenberger.
We Are the Alien
Forest Lewis ponders Graham St John’s “Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna.”
Mausoleum of Dreams
Oliver Evans reviews Will Sloan’s new biography “Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA.”
A Spectacle and Nothing Strange
Jacquelyn Ardam considers Francesca Wade’s “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.”
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