Sharp but Narrow
Jacquelyn Ardam reviews Michelle Dean’s “Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art Out of Having an Opinion.”...
“Learn the Use of Explosives!”: On Jacqueline Jones’s “Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical”
Elaine Elinson praises “Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical” by Jacqueline Jones....
Framing Our World: On Vanda Krefft’s “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox”
Dan Friedman unreels “The Man Who Made the Movies,” a biography of William Fox by Vanda Krefft....
“No Longer the Person I Was”: The Dazzling Correspondence of Albert Camus and Maria Casarès
Robert Zaretsky on the correspondence between Albert Camus and Maria Casarès....
The Abortion Queen of San Francisco
Stephen J. Gallas reviews "The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery & Ruin in the City of Gold."...
Mapping No-Man’s Land: On Thomas Dilworth’s “David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet”
Kevin McMahon praises “David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet” by Thomas Dilworth....
Keeping the Darwinian Faith
A review of Michael Ruse’s book on the religion of scientism....
The Re-Re-Rewriter: Octavia E. Butler and the MAYBE Book
A new book on Octavia Butler and her lost manuscripts....
Life in the Fast Lane
Charles L. Ponce de Leon reviews “Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine” by Joe Hagan....
Writing Lives: James Atlas on the Art of Biography
James Atlas chronicles the pleasures and perils of literary biography....
Acquisition and Empire: On James Delbourgo’s “Collecting the World”
On the origins of the British Museum....
“But Maybe?”: Immortality, Time, and Nabokov’s Dream Diary
Making sense of Nabokov’s dreams....
