The Limelight Kid
John Tytell reviews Mary V. Dearborn’s new biography of Hemingway....
Crime and Publishing: The Story of Jack Abbott and Norman Mailer
Remembering Jack Abbott, the convicted murderer who was Norman Mailer’s literary protégé....
The Art of Excess
Skye C. Cleary talks to Gary Cox about his new biography, “Existentialism and Excess: The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre.”...
Wild Thing: A New Biography of Thoreau
A quiet bombshell of a biography that reclaims a revolutionary Thoreau for the 21st century....
Who Does He Favor?
Rachel Masilamani offers a graphic portrait revisiting the 2016 presidential campaign. Part of the July 2017 Smithsonian Asian American Literature Festival....
One Fait Accompli After Another: Mikhail Gorbachev on the New Russia
Tom Gallagher appreciates “The New Russia,” a political autobiography by Mikhail Gorbachev....
The Myth of an Apolitical Montaigne
Robert Minto assays “Montaigne: A Life” by Philippe Desan, which restores the great essayist’s political dimension....
The Objectionist: The Life and Times of William F. Buckley Jr.
William F. Buckley Jr. loved to yell “stop” no matter what was moving, says our reviewer....
Have a Carrot, Have Two
Glen Roven on Amy Gary's "In the Great Green Room," a biography of "Goodnight Moon" author Margaret Wise Brown....
A Tapestry of Fame and Failure
Noah Kennedy reviews George Prochnik's "Stranger in a Strange Land."...
The American Sputnik: Van Cliburn Heats Up the Cold War
Tim Riley reviews two new books about pianist Van Cliburn....
How to “Madame President”
Chris Fink talks to Helene Cooper about her new biography of the first democratically elected female head of state in Africa....
