Brenda Wineapple

Brenda Wineapple's most recent book is White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Knopf), a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography.

Currently

  • Sallow, Queer, Sagacious

    March 11, 2009

    A new anthology of essays captures the many faces of Lincoln over the decades.

2008

  • The James Gang

    July 1, 2008 Subscribe

    In Henry James and his family, biographers find a fascinating story of dynastic melodrama.

2007

  • The Wharton School

    May 10, 2007 Subscribe

    A new biography describes how Edith Wharton transformed her obsessions into stories of loss, regret and entrapment.

2006

  • A Life of His Own

    November 22, 2006 Subscribe

    Victoria Glendinning's biography of Leonard Woolf looks at a remarkable public intellectual whose life and work were eclipsed by his more famous spouse.

  • The Sunkist Utopian

    July 27, 2006

    One hundred years ago, Upton Sinclair exposed the meatpacking industry. Three new books expose Sinclair as an activist dreamer with a messianic streak.

2005

  • Nancy Has Two Mommies

    November 30, 2005

    Nancy Drew has been a fixture in young girls' lives since 1930. But the continuing appeal of this spunky American icon--never sad, wrinkled or misunderstood--is both heartwarming and a little scary.

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Blogs

» The Beat

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
John Nichols
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» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
86 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
69 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
204 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
61 Comments