Behind Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters, Volumes I & II
Volume I: The Early Years (1940–1965) Volume II: The Quartet [...]
A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
At the age of twenty-seven, Gideon Lewis-Kraus was at a [...]
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
For about a decade, Robin D. G. Kelley’s biographical blurbs [...]
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
For a time in the early 1990s it was hard [...]
The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation
The prolific, much-admired poet, essayist, novelist, and translator Fanny Howe [...]
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
For the average Evelyn Waugh fan, the name “Lygon” probably [...]
Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
It is now over twenty years since the Berlin Wall [...]
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White
Carl Van Vechten is best-known today not for who he [...]
Black Sea Salt
Publius Ovidius Naso invented exile the way Charles Dickens invented [...]
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
At one point in his new collection of essays, Geoff [...]