“Here Lies Herm — I Mean, Joe”: On Sydney Ladensohn Stern’s “The Brothers Mankiewicz”
Alex Harvey delves into “The Brothers Mankiewicz” by Sydney Ladensohn Stern.
Alex Harvey delves into “The Brothers Mankiewicz” by Sydney Ladensohn Stern.
Alex HarveySep 27, 2020
Kathelin Gray reviews Maria Golia’s biography of composer and musician Ornette Coleman.
Kathelin GraySep 24, 2020
Cass R. Sunstein looks at Liel Leibovitz’s recently published biography of Stan Lee.
Cass R. SunsteinSep 21, 2020
Sibelan Forrester reviews “Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age,” translated and annotated by Anatoly Liberman.
Sibelan ForresterSep 20, 2020
Harlow Robinson turns his ear to “Taking a Chance on Love” by George Harwood Phillips and “In Stravinsky’s Orbit” by Klára Móricz.
Harlow RobinsonSep 15, 2020
Kathleen Jones on two recent biographies of midcentury women of noir: producer Joan Harrison and actress Veronica Lake.
Kathleen B. JonesSep 14, 2020
Michael Nava reviews “The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America,” Eric Cervini’s exhaustive new history.
Michael NavaAug 31, 2020
Simon Lee reviews Selina Todd’s biography on British playwright Shelagh Delaney.
Simon LeeAug 21, 2020
A pair of new books about US Marshal Wyatt Earp are now out. Only one of them shoots straight.
Allen BarraAug 19, 2020
Is John Schad’s family archive as fictitious as, say, Clarissa Dalloway? And does it matter?
Gerri KimberAug 15, 2020
A new, generous biography of America’s midcentury human disaster.
Christopher M. EliasAug 2, 2020
Jonathan Alexander reviews "Wrong," the new biography of Dennis Cooper by Diarmuid Hester.
Jonathan AlexanderJul 29, 2020
Dan Friedman finds meaning in “Meaning a Life,” the autobiography of Mary Oppen.
Dan FriedmanJun 24, 2020
A new biography of early cinema’s first family, the Costellos.
Chris YogerstJun 12, 2020
Three new books offer an embarrassment of riches for fans of Robert Stone.
Rob LathamJun 2, 2020
Dave Mandl takes five with “Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time” by Philip Clark.
Dave MandlMay 10, 2020
Robert Chandler delves into “The Years of Anger,” a biography of the unjustly neglected British poet Randall Swingler, by Andy Croft.
Robert ChandlerMay 8, 2020
A new biography of a leading light — and loud voice — of second-wave feminism.
Rachel ShteirApr 26, 2020
A novel about a 19th-century French gynecologist tells us about life in the Brexit era.
Martin GelinApr 23, 2020
Audra Wolfe shows how the banality of Einstein’s time in Prague is precisely the point of Michael Gordin’s new book, “Einstein in Bohemia.”
Audra J. WolfeMar 23, 2020
The saga of an artistic family in Franco’s Spain raises questions about reconciliation.
Jordan ElgrablyMar 22, 2020
The rise and fall and rise again of the Salvadoran gang MS-13 is seen through the story of one of its members.
Jeff PeerMar 20, 2020
Two new biographies of early 20th-century American radical women.
Elaine MargolinMar 14, 2020
A new biography of Michael Hollingshead, the man who turned Timothy Leary on.
James PennerFeb 19, 2020