OLM Favorites: A Great and Sustaining Mystery
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Anthony Burgess the novelist had dreams of being a composer. He had little success, but along the way he delved deep into the nature and meaning of music.
Read MoreOLM Favorites: The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
/William S. Burroughs's notorious Cut-up Trilogy was his fiercest broadside against what he felt was the tyranny of linear thought. Steve Danziger delves into their Word Hoard.
Read MoreOLM Favorites: The Cute One Redux
/A sprawling new biography looks at both the quotidian day to day life and the pivotal music of the "cute" Beatle, Paul McCartney.
Read MoreBook Review: The Dawn Watch
/A fantastic new biography of Joseph Conrad follows him around in his travels and delves into the heart of his many books.
Read MoreBook Review: Grant
/Bestselling biographer Ron Chernow tells the story of famous general and infamous president Ulysses S. Grant.
Read MoreBook Review: Calder
/The legendary avant-garde sculptor Alexander Calder gets his very first biography, written by art critic Jed Perl
Read MoreBook Review: Leonardo Da Vinci
/Bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson adds another massive tome to the pile of those devoted to the quintessential Renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci.
Read MoreBook Review: Stalin - Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
/Stephen Kotkin's groundbreaking multi-volume biography of Stalin continues with the uneasy alliance between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
Read MoreTough Room
/What does a movie-maker do? Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola's new book, Live Cinema and Its Techniques, offers a strange blend of answer and feint by way of responding.
Read MoreWaiting for the Dough
/Near the end of his life, Orson Welles tape-recorded his lunches with a faithful industry friend. By turns hilarious and self-pitying, they give a brilliant glimpse of the aging titan.
Read MoreThe Heavy Blanks
/An aspiring young writer encounters the journals of legendary Canadian novelist Elizabeth Smart, whose virtuoso novella By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept gives no hint of her struggles with her own writing
Read MoreBook Review: James Conant, Warrior Scientist
/US weapons-making scientist in two world wars and a path-making president of Harvard James Conant gets a generous biography, written by his granddaughter.
Read MoreBook Review: Bunny Mellon
/Renowned socialite Bunny Mellon, who made headlines for an entire century, gets a big, generous new biography.
Read MoreBook Review: The Unfinished Palazzo
/A small portion of the life of one famous Venetian palace is told through the lives of three remarkable women who ruled it in the 20th century.
Read MoreBook Review: The World Broke in Two
/A new book contends that one particular year in the wake of the First World War changed the literary landscape forever.
Read MoreWastelands – Stephen Crane’s War
/Stephen Crane was born too late to go to war, but The Red Badge of Courage endures, not only as a story about war and what happens to people in war, but also as a remarkable experiment in literary modernism.
Read MoreThe Writings of the War
/A century ago this year, the American Expeditionary Force set off for Europe to end all wars. Andrew Carroll's new book looks at the lives of the men who faced the Great War, and the enigmatic general who led them.
Read MoreBook Review: Patrick Henry
/A lavishly-detailed new biography tells the story of the Virginia plantation-owner and early voice for independence from Great Britain
Read MoreBook Review: Warner Bros
/The latest entry in Yale's "Jewish Lives" series is the story of Warner Brothers Studo, by the great film historian David Thomson
Read MoreThe Parties Were Hell
/Diana Trilling worked in her eminent husband’s shadow; a new biography hints at the toll that took and brings her accomplishments into the light.
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