BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

How Much Faith Is Left?: On Warren Zanes’s “Deliver Me from Nowhere”

Tim Riley reviews Warren Zanes’s “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska.’”...

TIM RILEY

MUSIC

HISTORY

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Relevés and Revolutions: On Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B”

Martha Anne Toll reviews Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century.”...

MARTHA ANNE TOLL

ART & ARCHITECTURE

HISTORY

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

I Was Determined to Remember: Harriet Jacobs and the Corporeality of Slavery’s Legacies

Koritha Mitchell discusses her research for a scholarly edition of Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”...

KORITHA MITCHELL

MEMOIR & ESSAY

HISTORY

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The Escape Artist: On John le Carré’s “A Private Spy” and Suleika Dawson’s “The Secret Heart”

John Phipps reviews two highly revealing new books about the late John Le Carré....

JOHN PHIPPS

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Transcendent Truths: On Reza Aslan’s “An American Martyr in Persia”

Matthew Mullins reviews Reza Aslan’s “An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville.”...

MATTHEW MULLINS

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

In a Life I Never Had I Was a Brave Cosmonaut: On Nona Fernández’s “Voyager”

Claire Calderón reviews Nona Fernández’s “Voyager: Constellations of Memory,” translated by Natasha Wimmer....

CLAIRE CALDERÓN

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A Giant Peak Called “The Doors”: A Conversation with John Densmore

James Penner interviews John Densmore, drummer for the Doors....

JAMES PENNER

NONFICTION

MUSIC

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The Afterlife of Slavery: On Carole Emberton’s “To Walk About in Freedom”

Jim Downs reviews Carole Emberton’s “To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner.”...

JIM DOWNS

POLITICS

HISTORY

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Transpacific Connections and Competitions: On Ying Zhu’s “Hollywood in China” and Daryl Joji Maeda’s “Like Water”

Aynne Kokas reviews two recent books about the intersection of China and Hollywood: Ying Zhu’s “Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market” and Daryl Joji Maeda’s “Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee.”...

AYNNE KOKAS

AROUND THE WORLD

FILM

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Hurray for Inventing New Genres or Whatever: On Dr. Moiya McTier’s “The Milky Way”

Joani Etskovitz explores the genres at play — from astronomy and mythology to self-help and romance — in Dr. Moiya McTier’s “The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy.”...

JOANI ETSKOVITZ

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

HISTORY

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Mankind Is a Piece of Shit: On Keiron Pim’s “Endless Flight”

Luke Warde reviews Keiron Pim’s new biography “Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth.”...

LUKE WARDE

FICTION

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Examining Phillis Wheatley

Hollis Robbins examines the legend of Phillis Wheatley, the first African American published poet....

HOLLIS ROBBINS

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

POETRY

The Many Faces of Felix Frankfurter: On Brad Snyder’s “Democratic Justice”

Paul Finkelman reviews Brad Snyder's "Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment."...

PAUL FINKELMAN

LAW

POLITICS

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Hurt Just the Right Way: A Conversation with Emi Nietfeld

Natasia Pelowski speaks with Emi Nietfeld about her new memoir, “Acceptance.”...

NATASIA PELOWSKI

MEMOIR & ESSAY

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Beyond Liberalism?: On Raymond Geuss’s “Not Thinking Like a Liberal”

Richard Eldridge reviews Raymond Geuss’s “Not Thinking Like a Liberal.”...

RICHARD ELDRIDGE

POLITICS

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A Communion of Pathless Solitudes: On Adam Nicolson’s “The Making of Poetry”

Joshua Hren reviews Adam Nicolson’s “The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels.”...

JOSHUA HREN

LITERARY CRITICISM

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

POETRY

A Down-and-Out but Amusing Character: On Alex Harvey’s “Song Noir”

Dec Ryan reviews Alex Harvey’s “Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles.”...

DECLAN RYAN

NONFICTION

MUSIC

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

All of the Monsters (In Which I Accuse James Purdy of Throwing My Four-Year-Old Child Down Two Flights of Stairs Using His Powers of Telekinesis): On Michael Snyder’s “James Purdy”

Matthew Stadler recalls his friend James Purdy via Michael Snyder’s new biography of the novelist, playwright, and poet, “James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer.”...

MATTHEW STADLER

MEMOIR & ESSAY

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

LITERARY FICTION

The Masks of Xi Jinping: On Alfred L. Chan’s “Xi Jinping” and Joseph Torigian’s “Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion”

Who is Xi Jinping and what comes after? Martin Laflamme reviews Alfred L. Chan’s biography of Xi Jinping and Joseph Torigian’s study of power struggles in the Soviet Union and the PRC....

MARTIN LAFLAMME

AROUND THE WORLD

NONFICTION

POLITICS

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

California, Coming Home: On Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert’s “Listen, World!”

Lauren Arrington considers a biography of influential newspaper columnist Elsie Robinson, “Listen, World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman” by Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert....