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January 27, 2022
Jo Livingstone
The Rich Tapestry of Brian Cox
The “Succession” actor’s autobiography is pleasingly horrible.
December 8, 2021
Jo Livingstone
The Cinematic Sainthood of Diego Maradona
Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” is a coming-of-age movie set during a legendary chapter in soccer history.
August 19, 2021
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Ryu Spaeth
The Lost World of W.G. Sebald
How the cataclysms of the past loomed over Sebald’s life and haunted his fiction
April 9, 2021
Jo Livingstone
There’s More to Hunter Biden Than a Laptop
This portrait of the privileged scion as a crack addict helps explain his father’s odd appeal.
October 9, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Sweet Fantasy of the Female Pop Star
New books by Mariah Carey and Lana Del Rey report from inside the trap of celebrity.
December 12, 2018
Helena Fitzgerald
Lucia Berlin’s Art of Retelling
How the writer’s stories and her memoir fashion a self from the same, revisited outlines
October 19, 2017
Robert Minto
A Revered Biographer Looks at His Own Life
James Atlas wrote two influential literary biographies. Now, he turns to memoir.
May 18, 2017
Robert Minto
Samuel R. Delany’s Life of Contradictions
The science fiction writer's newly published diaries show a man grappling with confusion, bigotry, and the weight of his own talent.
October 14, 2014
e e cummings
e e cummings Tries to Answer the Question "Who Am I?" in This Delightful Lecture
May 20, 2002
John McWhorter
Saint Maya
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The Child Monarch
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