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Eclipse Expeditions
On "After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet" and the fraught history of Emily Dickinson's editors.
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn
The Sufferings of Nietzsche
Morten Høi Jensen contemplates the fruitful sufferings of Nietzsche, as chronicled in recent books by Sue Prideaux and John Kaag.
A Proust of One’s Own: Anthony Powell’s 20th Century
Sylvia Brownrigg revisits the work of Anthony Powell, a Proust of midcentury Britain.
The World Is Not Enough
Jason Barker reviews "A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx."
The Most Powerful Person in Hollywood Without a Studio
The most powerful man in Hollywood didn’t make movies. He was a shady journalist.
Destroyed by Truth
Tridip Suhrud's careful work on Gandhi's "Autobiography" helps readers understand the man's experiments with the truth and the self.
A Substantially Good Book: On Charles J. Shields’s Life of John Williams
Christopher Urban admires “The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life” by Charles J. Shields.
A Muslim Founder of the Social Sciences?
In "Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography," Robert Irwin sets out to both demythologize and re-mystify the influential 14th-century philosopher.
“The Weightiest Questions in the Smallest Number of Words”: Retelling the Nietzsche Story
Skye C. Cleary talks with Sue Prideaux about her latest biography, "I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche."
The President-in-Waiting
A detailed, troubling look at the political life of Mike Pence.
Young, Restless, Gifted, and Black: Exploring the Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry with Imani Perry
Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn talks to Imani Perry about her new biography of Lorraine Hansberry.
Literature and Life: An Interview with Soledad Fox Maura
A biography of perhaps the most interesting man in the (20th-century) world.
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