Reindeer Meat and Polo Mints
/Vita Sackville-West's granddaughter gives us an intimate look at seven generations of her famous family.
Read MoreThe Secret Things of the Earth
/A new biography explores the complicated life of the writer who gave us "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Lottery."
Read MoreHis Majesty, the Not Excessively Cowardly
/He's forever linked in history with his punning nickname, but a new biography shows there was more to Æthelred than being "Unready"
Read MoreAnswer in Paradox
/An intimate new biography gives us a Charlotte Brontë for our times - and raises questions about the entanglement of life and art.
Read MoreStrange Reckoning
/She was the daughter, the sister, and the wife of kings in one of England's most turbulent periods, but Alison Weir's new biography is the first to make us feel we really know Elizabeth of York.
Read MoreEntred in a Spacious Court
/Ben Jonson said that the once wealthy and acclaimed Edmund Spenser died "for want of bread"; a new biography tries to disentangle myth from fact, and to make the case for the great poet's relevance today
Read MoreThe Ghosts of Monmouth County
/Bossophilia: The idolization of Bruce Springsteen that comes from midlife nostalgia and a fear of dying. Steve Danziger confronts the phenomenon, and a new biography.
Read MoreWe Must Worship
/The first biography of David Foster Wallace is out and it's hardly the sort of book he himself would have written -- or read. Might this be for the best?
Read More‘Some fights are bigger than others’
/Brothers take opposing sides in World War One, in a gripping biography that reveals the history and politics of America's role in the conflict.
Read MoreLast Days of the Rough Rider
/Theodore Roosevelt left office younger than any American president before him, and renowned biographer Edmund Morris concludes his TR trilogy with a look at the Colonel's post-power days.
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