Classics Reissued: The Brontes
/The passionate, complicated Bronte family is the subject of Juliet Barker's massive, definitive biography, now given a sumptuous new edition
Read MoreBook Review: James Madison
/An accessible, well-researched new biography takes a largely approving look at America's fourth president, James Madison.
Read MoreFrom the Archives: I Talk & Laugh & Listen
/She oversaw an shepherded the House of Windsor for a century and did more to shape its present character than anyone. Three years ago William Shawcross wrote an official and none-too-gossipy biography.
Read MoreBook Review: Michelangelo
/The first volume in a magisterial new two-volume biography of the greatest Renaissance artist of them all!
Read MoreBook Review: My Two Moms
/The well-spoken son of a lesbian couple becomes a YouTube sensation - and an author.
Read MoreBook Review: The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
/A heapingly generous helping of the letters of history's most popular novelist
Read MoreBook Review: Uncovering the Truth about Meriwether Lewis
/a new book sifts the evidence for a few flash-point topics in the life of Meriwether Lewis
Read MoreBook Review: The Crimes of Elagabalus
/A solid, enjoyable new biography of one of ancient Rome's most notorious gay teen-emperors!
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite
/A big new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, whose vivid and dreamlike artwork caught the sentimentality of his time and shaped it to immortal perfection.
Read MoreBook Review: Henry VIII
/A masterful new biography takes Henry VIII down a peg or two
Read MoreBook Review: Ben Jonson
/A brilliant new biography of the great man of the English Renaissance
Read MoreBook Review: Catherine the Great
/She nearly doubled the size of the Russian empire, she debated with philosophers, she endowed the first women's college in Russia, and she was a beloved mother to her people for 34 years - and she had a steady stream of lovers through it all. She was Catherine the Great.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Napoleon
/Arcade Publishing re-issues Frank McLynn's merrily magnificent biography of that pestiferous little Corsican!
Read MoreBook Review: Caravaggio
/A lively new biography of the artist whose work - and life - lives on the borderland of light and dark
Read MoreBook Review: Mary I
/A quietly stunning new biography of England's infamous "Bloody Mary"
Read MoreBook Review: Byron in Geneva
/Joining the innumerable hosts of Byron biographies, a new book looks at the heartthrob poet's brief but legendary sojourn to Geneva
Read MoreOnward, Muriel, Onward!
/Perceptive, cosmopolitan British novelist Muriel Spark has at last received an enormous and long-promised biography. Is justice done - or perhaps overdone?
Read MoreWho the Hell is Lili St. Cyr?
/Carl Van Doren called her “the princess who takes off her pants,” but who was Gypsy Rose Lee, really? Kindly let Michael Adams entertain you in looking at two recent biographies.
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