• Biography

    Film History

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius
    of Ingmar Bergman

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  January 11, 2021
    Literary History

    On Writing Nora Joyce into Biographical Fiction

    By Nuala O'Connor  January 5, 2021
    Lit Century

    Where Blues for Mister Charlie Fits into James Baldwin’s Oeuvre

    By Lit Century   December 29, 2020
    Baseball

    When Tom Seaver Came Into the Big Leagues He Came in Pitching

    By Bill Madden  December 22, 2020
    Anthropology

    Barry Lopez on the Life of a True Naturalist

    By Barry Lopez  December 18, 2020
    Theater

    The Austrian Writer Whose Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

    By Genese Grill  December 17, 2020
    The West

    That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in
    New Mexico

    By Ken Layne  December 16, 2020
    Classical Music

    How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

    By Jan Swafford  December 15, 2020
    The Writing Life

    What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

    By Patrick Wright  December 11, 2020
    Letters

    Edith Vonnegut on the Love Letters of Kurt and Jane Vonnegut

    By Edith Vonnegut  December 9, 2020
    Rock N Roll

    How KISS Became a Rock & Roll Phenomenon

    By Doug Brod  December 9, 2020
    Otherppl

    How a Nun Accidentally Led Allen Ginsberg’s Biographer to the Poet’s Work

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 9, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 7, 2020
    Adaptations

    The Mankiewicz Brothers’ Biographer Weighs in on David Fincher’s Mank

    By Sydney Ladensohn Stern  December 4, 2020
    The Hub

    A special issue of The Volta honors the life and work of poet Molly Brodak.

    By Walker Caplan  December 2, 2020
    Philosophy

    The Painter and the Scientist:
    Unraveling the Myths About Leonardo Da Vinci

    By Francesca Fiorani  December 2, 2020
    Photography

    A Rare Look at Obama Before the Presidency

    By David Katz  December 1, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Love, Travel, and Separation: On Bertolt Brecht and His Lover-Collaborators

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   December 1, 2020
    Biography

    The Biography I’ll Never Truly Finish Writing

    By Fortunato Salazar  November 30, 2020
    Letters

    Who Exactly Was Rilke’s Young Poet Correspondent?

    By Damion Searls  November 30, 2020
    Philosophy

    The Medieval Philosopher Who Outlined the Basics of the Universe

    By Seb Falk  November 30, 2020
    graphic biography

    When Paul Robeson
    Became a Star

    By Sharon Rudahl  November 30, 2020
    American History

    The ‘Race’ Question: Where Henry Adams Lacked
    Moral Insight

    By David S. Brown  November 25, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, November Edition

    By Book Marks  November 25, 2020
    New Books Network

    Was Freud a Scam Artist?

    By New Books Network  November 25, 2020
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