The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, September Edition

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, September Edition

The lives of Stephen Hawking, Toussaint Louverture, Adolf Hitler, and more

By Book Marks | September 29, 2020

Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

In Praise of an Artist and Writer Taken Too Soon

By Brian Dillon | September 28, 2020

Was Abstract Art Actually Invented by a Mid-19th-Century Spiritualist?

Was Abstract Art Actually Invented by a Mid-19th-Century Spiritualist?

Jennifer Dasal on the 1871 Art Exhibition of Georgiana Houghton

By Jennifer Dasal | September 23, 2020

What Is So Special About Balzac's Thousands of Characters?

What Is So Special About Balzac's Thousands of Characters?

Peter Brooks on the Extraordinary Fictional Lives of the French Master

By Peter Brooks | September 23, 2020

When Jimi Hendrix Took the UK by Storm

When Jimi Hendrix Took the UK by Storm

And Eric Clapton Realized He May Have to Hand Over the Crown

By Philip Norman | September 17, 2020

Remembering Timothy Findley on His Home Ground

Remembering Timothy Findley on His Home Ground

Sherrill Grace on the Life and Legacy of a Great Canadian Writer

By Sherrill Grace | September 10, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

The Humble Confidence of Seamus Heaney

By R. F. Foster | August 31, 2020

The Wife of "Italy's George Washington" Was a Radical in Her Own Right

By Diana Giovinazzo | August 26, 2020

On the Similarities (and Differences) Between Donald Trump and Teddy Roosevelt

By Keen On | August 21, 2020

Want to throw a wrench in your reading habit? Read the fantastical life of a saint.

Want to throw a wrench in your reading habit? Read the fantastical life of a saint.

By Aaron Robertson | August 20, 2020

On Mary King Ward, 19th-Century Celebrity Scientist

On Mary King Ward, 19th-Century Celebrity Scientist

(Who Also Happens to be the First Person to Die From a Car Accident)

By Emily Willingham | August 14, 2020

John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

Mark Dery on Great Demon Kings, the Memoir of an Icon

By Mark Dery | August 14, 2020

Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

Ann Jefferson on the Author's Early Tropisms

By Ann Jefferson | August 13, 2020

Reading the First Drafts of<br> <em>Anna Karenina</em>

Reading the First Drafts of
Anna Karenina

Bob Blaisdell on Tolstoy's Creation and Pushkin's Influence

By Bob Blaisdell | August 6, 2020

On the Unique Artistic Sensibility of Magda Nachman

On the Unique Artistic Sensibility of Magda Nachman

Dr. Lina Bernstein Revisits the Art World of
Early 20th-Century St. Petersburg

By Lina Bernstein | July 29, 2020

The Vow James Baldwin Made to Young Civil Rights Activists

The Vow James Baldwin Made to Young Civil Rights Activists

Eddie Glaude on How Baldwin Confronted America's Most Exceptional Lie

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. | July 28, 2020

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