"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn
Randal Jelks considers two books about underappreciated Civil Rights figures, A. J. Baime’s “White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret” and Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s “ Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.”
Justin Tyler Clark reviews Mark Braude’s new biography “Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris.”
Travis Diehl on Justin Beal’s biography-cum-memoir, “Sandfuture.”
Abena Ampofoa Asare on the diasporic wanderings — and singular meeting — of James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe.
Craig Lindsey reviews two new biographies of major rap DJs by Dan Charnas and Lance Scott Walker.
Chris Yogerst reviews Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks: A Story of Celebrity.”
Tim Riley reviews Elizabeth Wilson’s new biography “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia.”
Edward Tyerman reviews Robert Leach’s new biography, “Sergei Tretyakov: A Revolutionary Writer in Stalin’s Russia.”
Daniel N. Gullotta reviews David S. Brown’s new biography, “The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson.”
Steven Aschheim reviews “Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes,” a new biography by Jerry Z. Muller.
“Oscar Wilde: A Life” displays an almost Tolstoyan attention to detail.
Maria Rubins weighs Tolstoy’s complicated legacy, with the help Andrei Zorin’s new biography and Vadim Shneyder’s “Russia’s Capitalist Realism.”
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