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Biography

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How Louisa May Alcott’s Mother Encouraged Her Early Writing

By Gardner McFall  March 23, 2018
Biography

Alain Locke’s Controversial Vision of a “Negro Renaissance”

By Jeffrey C. Stewart  March 16, 2018
Biography

How I Ended Up Writing the Legendary Paul Robeson’s Biography

By Martin Duberman  March 5, 2018
Biography

Of the Island Home We Chose to Leave

By Krystal A. Sital  February 21, 2018
Profile

What If Kafka Was the Best Relationship of My Twenties?

By Dylan Foley  February 21, 2018
Excerpts

In Awe of Seabirds at the Edge of the World

By Adam Nicolson  February 7, 2018
Biography

The Editor Who Pulled Joseph Conrad from the Slush Pile

By Helen Smith  December 15, 2017
Biography

The Births and Deaths of Kathy Acker

By Douglas A. Martin  November 30, 2017
Excerpts

How David Bowie Made Life Less Suffocating for Young Queer People

By Darryl W. Bullock  November 28, 2017
Biography

Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

By Ilan Stavans  November 14, 2017
Excerpts

A Holy Terror, A Common Scold, and the First Feminist Blogger

By Jeff Biggers  November 10, 2017
Feature

The Autobiography of Gucci Mane Sets a New High for the Celebrity Memoir

By Katie Fustich  November 8, 2017
Excerpts

The Ugandan Reporter Shedding Light on the Lives of Missing Children

By Jessica Yu  November 8, 2017
Biography

The Women Who Shaped Vladimir Lenin

By Victor Sebestyen  November 7, 2017
Excerpts

Muhammad Ali, Author of “The Greatest Book of All Time”?

By Jonathan Eig  November 1, 2017
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When the French Invaded Hanoi, My Brothers Stayed Behind

By Mai Elliott  October 20, 2017
Biography

The Interview that Became Henry Kissinger’s “Most Disastrous Decision”

By Cristina De Stefano  October 20, 2017
Biography

My 12-Hour Lunch Date with Joni Mitchell

By David Yaffe  October 18, 2017
Biography

Mark Twain, Cocaine Kingpin?

By Alan Pell Crawford  October 16, 2017
Biography

Herbert Hoover, Frustrated Playwright

By Kenneth Whyte  October 11, 2017
Biography

Louisa May Alcott: A Difficult Woman Who Got Things Done

By Elise Hooper  September 25, 2017
Biography

Writing Bellow’s Biography While He Was Still Alive

By James Atlas  September 20, 2017
Excerpts

The German-Jewish Refugees Who Created Curious George

By Nicholas Delbanco  September 15, 2017
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How Sigmund Freud Tried to Break and Remake His Fiancée

By Frederick Crews  August 22, 2017
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John Berger Contemplates Life and Death at the Graveside of Mahmoud Darwish

By John Berger  August 9, 2017
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