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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.
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn
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.”
Someone Always Takes Me Home: On Howard Fishman’s “To Anyone Who Ever Asks”
Chris Molnar reviews Howard Fishman’s “To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse.”
How Much Faith Is Left?: On Warren Zanes’s “Deliver Me from Nowhere”
Tim Riley reviews Warren Zanes’s “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska.’”
Relevés and Revolutions: On Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B”
Martha Anne Toll reviews Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century.”
I Was Determined to Remember: Harriet Jacobs and the Corporeality of Slavery’s Legacies
Koritha Mitchell discusses her research for a scholarly edition of Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”
The Escape Artist: On John le Carré’s “A Private Spy” and Suleika Dawson’s “The Secret Heart”
John Phipps reviews two highly revealing new books about the late John Le Carré.
Transcendent Truths: On Reza Aslan’s “An American Martyr in Persia”
Matthew Mullins reviews Reza Aslan’s “An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville.”
In a Life I Never Had I Was a Brave Cosmonaut: On Nona Fernández’s “Voyager”
Claire Calderón reviews Nona Fernández’s “Voyager: Constellations of Memory,” translated by Natasha Wimmer.
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