Biography

The Real Problem With Dianne Feinstein Isn’t Her Age

The Real Problem With Dianne Feinstein Isn’t Her Age The Real Problem With Dianne Feinstein Isn’t Her Age

Gerontocracy is a smokescreen for the danger of centrism.

Jun 10, 2022 / Jeet Heer

Hubert Harrison, Giant of Harlem Radicalism

Hubert Harrison, Giant of Harlem Radicalism Hubert Harrison, Giant of Harlem Radicalism

A two-volume biography tracks the life and times of one of Harlem’s leading socialists.

Jun 1, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Robert Greene II

The Art of Vivian Maier

The Art of Vivian Maier The Art of Vivian Maier

Her photography made its subject everyday life, but her life makes us ask: Who gets to be an artist?

May 30, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Jaffe

Florine Stettheimer, Insider Artist

Florine Stettheimer, Insider Artist Florine Stettheimer, Insider Artist

Barbara Bloemink’s biography paints a complicated picture of an artist whose work both celebrated and critiqued the upper echelons of early-20th-century cultural life.

May 12, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Max Pearl

Nijinska’s Revolutionary Vision of Dance

Nijinska’s Revolutionary Vision of Dance Nijinska’s Revolutionary Vision of Dance

Lynn Garafola’s biography of the dancer and choreographer charts her globetrotting life and radical art. 

May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson

It’s Woody Guthrie’s World.  We Just Live in It.

It’s Woody Guthrie’s World. We Just Live in It. It’s Woody Guthrie’s World. We Just Live in It.

A new show at the Morgan Library illuminates the legendary folk singer’s jam-packed life.

Apr 25, 2022 / Feature / Gene Seymour

The Many Lives of Billy Wilder

The Many Lives of Billy Wilder The Many Lives of Billy Wilder

From Galicia to Berlin to Paris and eventually to Hollywood, the prolific director and screenwriter never let go of what proved to be his most formative experience: being in a stat...

Apr 19, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg

The Fantasias of Niki de Saint Phalle

The Fantasias of Niki de Saint Phalle The Fantasias of Niki de Saint Phalle

Her art aimed at the creation of two things: the fashioning of a new self and a new world.  

Apr 5, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer

Meet the Countess With a Hole in Her Head

Meet the Countess With a Hole in Her Head Meet the Countess With a Hole in Her Head

Amanda Feilding may be an eccentric British aristocrat. But she deserves full credit for funding significant research into psychedelics long before it was either cool or respectabl...

Mar 24, 2022 / Zoe Cormier

Stephen Crane’s Lifetime of Mystery

Stephen Crane’s Lifetime of Mystery Stephen Crane’s Lifetime of Mystery

His visceral fiction and journalism might be best understood as a literature of pure immediacy.

Mar 1, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Paul Franz

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