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The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

Featuring Tom Stoppard, Michelle Zauner, Mike Nichols, D. H. Lawrence, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and more

By Book Marks | December 7, 2021

What Propelled Vivian Maier’s Earliest New York Photographs?

What Propelled Vivian Maier’s Earliest New York Photographs?

Ann Marks on the Birth of an Artist

By Ann Marks | December 7, 2021

“He Wound Up Feeling Like a Close Friend.” On Drawing the Life of Leonard Cohen

“He Wound Up Feeling Like a Close Friend.” On Drawing the Life of Leonard Cohen

Joe Ollmann Talks to Graphic Novelist Philippe Girard

By Literary Hub | December 6, 2021

On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic <em>Slaughterhouse Five</em>

On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Slaughterhouse Five

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | December 6, 2021

EJ Levy on the Complicated Life of James Miranda Barry

EJ Levy on the Complicated Life of James Miranda Barry

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | November 30, 2021

Francine Prose on Her Encounters with the Literary Strange

Francine Prose on Her Encounters with the Literary Strange

Francine Prose Reads Bolaño, Erpenbeck, Tutuola, and More

By Francine Prose | November 29, 2021

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  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

The Last Essay I Need to Write about David Foster Wallace

By Mary K. Holland | November 29, 2021

On the Life of Belle da Costa Greene, Visionary Librarian and Democratizer of Museums

By Book Dreams | November 29, 2021

On Eliza Haywood’s Explorations of Gender Politics and Sexual Passion

By History of Literature | November 29, 2021

We Shall Overcome: John Lewis on the Symbolism of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Urgency of the Civil Rights Movement

We Shall Overcome: John Lewis on the Symbolism of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Urgency of the Civil Rights Movement

The Late Activist and Congressman in Conversation with C-SPAN's Brian Lamb

By John Lewis | November 24, 2021

Revisiting Hunter S. Thompson’s Weird, Brief Stint as a Local Sports Editor

Revisiting Hunter S. Thompson’s Weird, Brief Stint as a Local Sports Editor

On The Jersey Shore Herald’s Most Famous Reporter

By David S. Wills | November 23, 2021

Nearly 200 video interviews with ACT UP New York members are now available online.

Nearly 200 video interviews with ACT UP New York members are now available online.

By Walker Caplan | November 22, 2021

The Life and Times of Iconic Cuban Novelist José Lezama Lima

The Life and Times of Iconic Cuban Novelist José Lezama Lima

Gabriel Pasquini on How a Writer Gets Disappeared—and Rehabilitated

By Gabriel Pasquini | November 22, 2021

A Fan’s Notes: The Kurt Vonnegut Documentary 40 Years in the Making

A Fan’s Notes: The Kurt Vonnegut Documentary 40 Years in the Making

Jonny Diamond on Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

By Jonny Diamond | November 19, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Watch Kurt Vonnegut Recall Entering Dresden as a POW

EXCLUSIVE: Watch Kurt Vonnegut Recall Entering Dresden as a POW

By Jonny Diamond | November 18, 2021

Kati Marton on the Transformative Power of Angela Merkel

Kati Marton on the Transformative Power of Angela Merkel

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | November 18, 2021

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