Stirring the Ashes: A Conversation with Harry Harootunian
A historian turns to the horror in his family’s own past....
Stirring the Ashes: A Conversation with Harry Harootunian
A historian turns to the horror in his family’s own past....
The Thousand Masks of the Unreal
Sam Gee reviews a recent biography of Martin Buber, as well as the recent republication of Buber's "Daniel: Dialogues on Realization."...
The Keys to Robert Graves’s Mythologies
Matt Keeley considers the uncertain legacy of Robert Graves as well as a new biography of the writer by Jean Moorcroft Wilson....
Out of Sartre’s Shadow
Skye C. Cleary reviews Kate Kirkpatrick's new biography of Simone de Beauvoir, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life."...
The Balletic Total Work of Art: On Nadine Meisner’s “Marius Petipa: The Emperor’s Ballet Master”
Megan Race admires “Marius Petipa: The Emperor’s Ballet Master” by Nadine Meisner....
Left for Dead: On the Philosophical Life and Vocation of Walter Kaufmann
Robert L. Kehoe III studies “Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic” by Stanley Corngold....
The Struggle to Feel: On Benjamin Moser’s “Sontag: Her Life and Work”
Robert Minto interprets “Sontag: Her Life and Work” by Benjamin Moser....
The Ordeal of Writing
Michael Krimper reviews a newly translated biography of Maurice Blanchot....
Proletarian Roadkill
Woody Haut reviews a new biography of Nelson Algren....
A Precious Gift: On Edythe Haber’s “Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter”
Robert Chandler celebrates the publication of “Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter” by Edythe Haber....
Consistently Inconsistent: On Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Allen Mendenhall reviews Stephen Budiansky's new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes....
Poetic Justice: Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Life in Law and Letters
Geoffrey Kirsch reviews "Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas" by Stephen Budiansky....