• Biography

    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
    Design

    Zora Neale Hurston: The College Years

    By Peter Bagge  March 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    William Seabrook, Great Travel Writer, Terrible Human

    By Joe Ollman  February 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Clara Hale and Audre Lorde Helped to Make New York

    By Julie Scelfo  January 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. on His Son’s Legacy

    By The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.  January 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 4, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Shirley Hazzard’s Teenage Spy Career

    By Paul French  December 20, 2016
    Biography

    By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O’Neill

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 9, 2016
    Biography

    Literary Frenemies: Jean Cocteau and Marcel Proust

    By Claude Arnaud  October 24, 2016
    Feature

    On the Poetic Brilliance of Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind

    By Rosie Schaap  October 14, 2016
    Excerpts

    On Bob Dylan’s Literary Influences

    By Mark Polizzotti  October 14, 2016
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