Exile on Man Street: On Tracey Thorn’s “My Rock ’n’ Roll Friend”
A provocative biography of Lindy Morrison, drummer for the Australian indie-rock band The Go-Betweens....
A House of One’s Own: On Deborah Levy’s “Real Estate”
At the crux of Deborah Levy’s concerns is how to live a creative life as a woman....
Boas and His Students
Michael S. Roth explores “Gods of the Upper Air” by Charles King....
The Philosopher’s Trail: On Samantha Rose Hill’s “Hannah Arendt”
Shaan Sachdev reviews “Hannah Arendt” by Samantha Rose Hill, a new book in Reaktion Books’s Critical Lives series....
“He Soars So Incredibly High”: A Conversation about Robert Walser with Susan Bernofsky
Veronica Esposito speaks to Susan Bernofsky, author of the long-awaited biography of Robert Walser, “Clairvoyant of the Small.”...
A Love Story Finally Brought to Light: On Liz Brown’s “Twilight Man”
A biography chronicling two gay men during the US Gilded Age....
A Would-Be Emperor Too Good to Be True
Nilanjan Bhowmick reviews Supriya Gandhi's biography of Dara Shukoh, "The Emperor Who Never Was."...
History Is Happening: On Edmund de Waal’s “Letters to Camondo”
An epistolary biography of a midcentury French businessman and patron of the arts....
The Untold Story of the CIA’s MK Ultra: A Conversation with Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer discusses his new biography, “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.”...
The Darwin of the Classics
A new biography of Milman Parry, who transformed our understanding of Homer, and oral culture in general....
On Lives and Counterlives
Two solid biographies of the late Philip Roth, one authorized, one not....
Highsmith Was a Troll: On Richard Bradford’s “Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires”
Maria Rybakova plumbs the depths of “Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires. The Life of Patricia Highsmith” by Richard Bradford....
