In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
January 1, 2024Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex
December 30, 2023And those names: JenniferBlowdryer, Sinnamon Love. Sebastian Horsely, a male prostitute, of course. Horsely advocates the...
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
December 29, 2023Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
December 23, 2023The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
December 22, 2023She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
December 21, 2023It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
December 18, 2023"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
December 16, 2023For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising
December 15, 2023There's a scene in Field of Dreams where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player...
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
December 15, 2023Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...