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The Wisdom of Oscar Hammerstein II: A Conversation with Laurie Winer
Joy Horowitz speaks with Laurie Winer about her book “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical.”
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn
To Walden: On Lawrence Buell’s “Henry David Thoreau” and Robert D. Richardson’s “Three Roads Back”
Todd Shy reviews Lawrence Buell’s “Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently” and Robert D. Richardson’s “Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives.”
A Man Without a Country: On Scott Eyman’s “Charlie Chaplin vs. America”
Chris Yogerst reviews Scott Eyman’s “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided.”
Mr. Bellow’s Planets: A Conversation with Zachary Leader
George Stanica speaks with Zachary Leader, the biographer of novelist Saul Bellow.
Tell Them It Is Going to Hurt: On Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out”
Tahneer Oksman reviews Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.”
Away Upstream Again: On Mark Wormald’s “The Catch”
Katherine Robinson reviews Mark Wormald’s “The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes.”
The World’s Wife: On Clare Carlisle’s “The Marriage Question”
Victoria Baena reviews Clare Carlisle’s “The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life.”
After the Leap: Marriage and Philosophy in George Eliot and Søren Kierkegaard
Clare Carlisle analyzes the theme of marriage in the life and work of two great 19th-century thinkers and writers, George Eliot and Søren Kierkegaard.
A Style So Clear It Could Wash a Face: On Pleiades Press’s “Bert Meyers”
Shoshana Olidort reviews Pleiades Press’s “Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master,” edited by Dana Levin and Adele Williams.
Poetry, Biography, and the Unknowable: On Two New Books About Phillis Wheatley
Hollis Robbins reviews Vincent Carretta’s “Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage” and David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence.”
A Poet of the Anticipation of Joy: On Laurie Winer’s “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical”
Tim Riley reviews Laurie Winer’s “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical.”
Hardworking Midwesterner: On Tom Brokaw’s “Never Give Up”
Michele Willens reviews Tom Brokaw’s “Never Give Up: A Prairie Family’s Story.”
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