Moonlight in Vermont
/Her remarkable bittersweet memoir reveals Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer as a shrewd anthropologist of wartime America.
Read MoreHunger Pangs
/Roxane Gay's new memoir about food, trauma, and her "unruly body" is often as difficult to read as it must have been to write.
Read MoreThe Sooner Disquieted
/What compromises did women in Tudor England face? What joys? What prospects, if any, for fulfillment? A sweeping new history cross-sections the issue.
Read MoreChange Your Direction
/A lively memoir shows there's much more to learning a language than conjugating irregular verbs.
Read MoreDown the Rabbit Hole
/An innovative new book on Lewis Carroll and space avoids spoiling the fun by explaining everything too literally, but still offers new insights on his playful oeuvre.
Read MoreBook Review: Paradise Lost
/The newest biography of the Jazz Age bard tries to get at the man beneath the high-flying legends.
Read MoreBook Review: Ernest Hemingway
/The epic and tortured life of Ernest Hemingway is told with remarkable insight in a powerful new biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
/An intriguing new book charts the long, complicated, and surprisingly vital JFK memory-industry.
Read MoreBook Review: Be Like the Fox
/A vivid new biography attempts to get at the true nature of the perennially-misunderstood Machiavelli
Read MoreAmerican Exceptional
/Adam Begley's long and exhaustive biography of iconic 20th century author John Updike reads like one long string of new books and new love affairs - but does it capture the man?
Read MoreBook Review: James Merrill - Life and Art
/The poet James Merrill at long last gets the lavish soup-to-nuts biography he's always deserved
Read MoreBook Review: Bonaparte, 1769-1802
/A gigantic new biography chronicles the rise-to-power of Napoleon Bonaparte
Read MoreBook Review: Young Eliot
/A lavishly-detailed new biography shows us Thomas Stearns Eliot in his slightly fussy, slightly feckless pre-fame years
Read MoreBook Review: Machiavelli
/An engaging new book looks at that perennial fascination for biographers, Niccolo Machiavelli
Read MoreBiography: J
/James Laughlin started a publishing imprint, New Directions, by selling what would become a syllabus of Modern writing from the trunk of his car.
Read MoreBook Review: America's Pastor
/For half a century, preacher Billy Graham was an unofficial spiritual advisor to presidents and rock stars; a new biography attempts to assess his impact on mainstream American religious thought
Read MoreBook Review: Eugene O'Neill - A Life in Four Acts
/A punchy and intensely readable new biography of America's greatest playwright
Read MoreBook Review: The Marquis
/The boyish hero of the American Revolution who became a more problematic and complicated figure in the political upheavals of his native France, the celebrated Marquis de Lafayette gets a sparkling new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Imprudent King
/He ruled an empire on which, it was famously said, the sun never set - and he did all the paperwork himself! It's a new life of King Philip II of Spain
Read MoreBook Review: Joan of Arc - A Life Transfigured
/The mighty Maid who led medieval France's armies to a string of improbable victories before being burned at the stake for witchcraft has been immortalized in song, on stage, on film - and in countless books. A new biography is the latest to tell the tale.
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