The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos and the Murder of Jose Robles by Steven Koch
December 8, 2025A ghost is a spirit who won't stay dead.
American Sucker – by David Denby
December 7, 2025The emotional trauma exposed a vulnerability that lay beneath all outward signs of success: a career...
The Story of AC/DC by Susan Masino
December 5, 2025Rock biographies, particularly of bands, are an odd subgenre. With an individual singer or instrumentalist, the...
A Chance Meeting: by Rachel Cohen
December 5, 2025In this, her debut book, Harvard graduate Rachel Cohen weaves a literary tapestry encompassing the lives...
About My Sisters – by Debra Ginsberg
December 5, 2025Ginsberg writes in vivid fly-on-the-wall detail about the complex relationships she has with each of her...
An Interview With Biographer Ann Seaman
December 4, 2025"The three were kidnapped at gunpoint at the American Atheist headquarters in Austin, Texas on a...
Orchestras, Oboes and Orgies
December 3, 2025"I was honest about my own behavior and that of others, yet stopped short of revealing...
An Interview With Freud Biographer Peter D. Kramer
December 1, 2025"In a brief biography, a writer needs to set himself a limited question. I chose this...
An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
November 28, 2025"The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews...
An Interview With Biographer James Connor
November 27, 2025"This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence....




