The Art of Cultivating Friends
Bob Ames was an American who understood Arab culture, who could befriend Arabs.
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn
Paul McCartney: The Wilderness Years
If Paul McCartney wasn’t a Beatle, then who was he? What was he?
Writers’ Private Lives
New Books on Harper Lee and J. D. Salinger
The Curse of Byron
Where, then, is the promised history of “the birth of literature’s greatest monsters”?
Seeds of Grass
The origins of American Bohemia in — where else — Greenwich Village, before the Civil War.
Bonhoeffer Co-Opted
Contributor Joel Looper on Charles Marsh's "Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer"
Sacred Duty
The Life of John Quincy Adams
“The Hardest Work I Have Ever Done”: “Dropout Piece” by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Our Own Device
Michael Schmidt’s biography of the novel is uplifting, proving that the novel is here to stay.
The Writer in Pieces
Ann Gelder on writing for the present and Yuri Olesha’s memoir-in-fragments, "No Day Without a Line."
Of Sons and Fathers and the Excesses of Form
On "My Struggle: Boyhood Island," which explores the pains & pleasures of boyhood. You can’t choose your parents, as they say, and that means everything.
Let Me Remind You
Now that Salinger is gone, people can freely reminisce.
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