Reality Hunger: The Six Books of Karl Ove Knausgaard, Part II
Part 2 of a 3-Part Series
Part 2 of a 3-Part Series
William PierceApr 23, 2015
Part 1 of a 3-Part Series
William PierceApr 22, 2015
Sarah Thornton's "33 Artists in 3 Acts" introduces readers to dozens of artists and a few curators operating at the upper echelons of the art...
Annie BuckleyApr 15, 2015
Powell had bad luck, and she received less attention than her male colleagues, but throughout it all, she kept writing.
Victoria PattersonApr 14, 2015
Daniel Schreiber’s "Susan Sontag," the first biography published since her death, offers an opportunity to reassess how we approach the last great...
Amanda DeMarcoMar 10, 2015
“However magesterially this biography conventionalizes Brown’s life, it does so at some potential cost to Brown’s anomalousness.”
Jordan Alexander SteinFeb 12, 2015
A man alone on a stage with just his microphone, his talent, and his demons for company.
Shehryar FazliFeb 9, 2015
Sometimes smoking a cigar is just smoking a cigar.
Richard H. ArmstrongJan 28, 2015
"Penelope Fitzgerald’s story was both permission and company; it was okay if I too had to start late and move slowly as a writer."
Courtney CookJan 23, 2015
For Fitzgerald, who grew up in a literary household and who was a brilliant student at Oxford, barge penury was not supposed to be in the cards.
Priyanka KumarJan 21, 2015
The Writing of Ian Curtis, Joy Division’s Poet-Frontman.
Esther YiJan 5, 2015
By founding New Directions Books, James Laughlin shaped an entire chanel of literary history.
Greg BarnhiselJan 4, 2015
The untold story of Manchester’s post-punk outfit The Fall and its talented, volatile lead singer Mark Edward Smith.
Simon LeeDec 11, 2014
Life on the prairie with and after Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Nancy McCabeDec 10, 2014
David Ritz's new biography of Aretha Franklin, “Respect,” is not the book Franklin wanted written.
Emily J. LordiDec 6, 2014
"We need to walk these books to the centers of educational institutions — this is what it is all about."
Daniel A. OlivasDec 4, 2014
"Scalia is the foremost champion of originalism ever to serve on the Court. But will it survive his tenure?"
Erwin ChemerinskyNov 2, 2014
A Biography of Stella Adler
Shonni EnelowOct 27, 2014
Bob Ames was an American who understood Arab culture, who could befriend Arabs.
Priyanka KumarOct 25, 2014
If Paul McCartney wasn’t a Beatle, then who was he? What was he?
Lary WallaceOct 17, 2014
New Books on Harper Lee and J. D. Salinger
Anne Boyd RiouxSep 30, 2014
Where, then, is the promised history of “the birth of literature’s greatest monsters”?
Leslie S. KlingerSep 24, 2014
The origins of American Bohemia in — where else — Greenwich Village, before the Civil War.
Alexander C. KafkaSep 11, 2014
Contributor Joel Looper on Charles Marsh's "Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer"
Joel LooperSep 10, 2014