The Prophet Is Human
A towering new biography of a great American orator and public intellectual....
First and Not Last
"First: Sandra Day O’Connor" is the happy product of a rare publishing phenomenon: the marriage of a significant subject with a mature, empathetic writer....
The Awful Shapelessness of Loss: On Katharine Smyth’s “All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf”
Morten Høi Jensen lingers over “All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf” by Katharine Smyth....
On the Vice of Storytelling: An Interview with Aaron Shulman
Aaron Shulman tells a real-life family saga of modern Spain....
The Black Disk of the Sun: On Brian J. Boeck’s Biography of Mikhail Sholokhov, “Stalin’s Scribe”
Boris Dralyuk appreciates a “riveting political biography” of Mikhail Sholokhov, “Stalin’s Scribe” by Brian J. Boeck....
Remaining Rogue: On Andrew S. Curran’s “Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely”
Robert Zaretsky ponders “Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely” by Andrew S. Curran....
The Mexican Phoenix Rises: On “Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop”
Ed Simon considers “Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop” by Ilan Stavans....
A Genius for Being Human
Aurelian Craiutu reviews Henry Hardy's "In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure."...
Granted: The Best
Bob Blaisdell pores over “The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant” and “My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife.”...
A (Not So) Secular Saint
A new biography details the religious life of a liberal icon....
Here Lies One Whose Name Was Writ in Erasure: Cy Twombly, the Indolent Dauphin of Keatsian Negative Capability
One of the major threads throughout “Chalk” is that the erasures and omissions in Twombly’s art mirror the erasures and omissions of Twombly’s life....
Not a “No Comment” Person: On Lindsey Hilsum’s “In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin”
Stephanie Sy-Quia reviews “In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin” by Lindsey Hilsum....
