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Renegade Rosset
John Tytell on Barney Rosset, the gutsy dynamo of American alternative publishing.
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn
Edward Albee’s Beautiful Venom
Shehryar Fazli reflects on Edward Albee's acerbic oeuvre.
The Dunce Gets a Doorstop: A Life of Jean Cocteau
Kevin McMahon takes the measure of “Jean Cocteau: A Life” by Claude Arnaud.
A Newish Biography of Mark Rothko
Grace Glueck on Annie Cohel-Solal's recent biography of Mark Rothko.
Biography: Where White Lives Matter
Kavita Das bemoans the lack of diversity in the biography genre.
Tropic of Barney
Loren Glass on the autobiography of Barney Rosset, legendary publisher of Grove Press.
Or Not So Well
Glyn Salton-Cox on what "Or Orwell" and "Orwell's Nose" can tell us about the much-studied George Orwell.
Was the Black Prince Black? And Other Historical Questions
What can a biographer do when their subject is elusive? John T. Scott finds out in his review of Catherine Fletcher's "The Black Prince of Florence."
The Odor of Mortality: On John Sutherland’s “Orwell’s Nose”
In "Orwell's Nose," John Sutherland captures Orwell's essence in a brief 240 pages better than most biographers do in 600. But is it enough?
In for Doom: Austin Reed’s “The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict”
Bashaun Brown and Caleb Smith discuss Austin Reed's recently rediscovered memoir, "The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict".
An Extraordinary Person
Shirin Ebadi’s autobiographical “Until We Are Free” describes her struggle to erect human rights law in Iran after winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Fresh Air of the Modern World
Leslie M. M. Blume proves that Hemingway matters after all.
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