• Biography

    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
    Excerpts

    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
    Excerpts

    How Sigmund Freud Tried to Break and Remake His Fiancée

    By Frederick Crews  August 22, 2017
    Excerpts

    John Berger Contemplates Life and Death at the Graveside of Mahmoud Darwish

    By John Berger  August 9, 2017
    Excerpts

    When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Disappeared

    By Pierre Lassus  August 1, 2017
    Excerpts

    Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

    By Laura Dassow Walls  July 12, 2017
    Excerpts

    Henry David Thoreau, Tree-Hugger

    By Richard Higgins  July 12, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Superhuman Charm of Ernest Hemingway, the “Most Shot-Up Man in America”

    By Mary V. Dearborn  May 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen

    By Helena Kelly  May 3, 2017
    Excerpts

    In Which Angela Carter Gives No F*cks

    By Edmund Gordon  March 29, 2017
    Excerpts

    How a Husband’s Loving Biography Ruined His Wife’s Reputation

    By Richard Holmes  March 21, 2017
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