The Misunderstood Robber Baron
Steve Fraser : History
T.J. Stiles's The First Tycoon is a gilded portrait of the robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt.
2009
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Mahler's Body
David Schiff : Music
Gustav Mahler's embrace of Germanness and battles with anti-Semitism.
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Not Easy Being Greene
Michelle Orange : Letters
A Life in Letters as chronicled by the determinedly elusive Graham Greene.
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This Small Extravagance
James Longenbach : Theater
Writing a biography of the mind of Shakespeare is a challenge that requires the ingenuity of an artist.
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An Alienation Artist
Alexander Provan : Literary Criticism
Unraveling the Kafkaesque mystique of Franz Kafka.
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In His League
Scott Sherman
An affectionate and absorbing oral history raises questions of whether George Plimpton's amiable exterior concealed a man without qualities.
2008
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Her Nature Was Future
The intimate friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson takes wing in two new books.
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Naipaul's Darkness
Biographer Patrick French offers a vivid, sometimes enthralling portrait of a deeply enigmatic writer.
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Walter Benjamin Forever
Following the quirky, revolutionary life path of one of the most celebrated twentieth-century intellectuals.
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A Hungry Mind
Ingrid Rowland's Giordano Bruno rediscovers the Renaissance philosopher and heretic.
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An Unlikely King
An authoritative new biography of Jordan's King Hussein offers an absorbing diplomatic history of the Middle East.
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The James Gang
Brenda Wineapple : Books, Literature, & Ideas
In Henry James and his family, biographers find a fascinating story of dynastic melodrama.
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Green Days
Anson Rabinbach : Foreign Leaders & Political Figures
The biography of Joschka Fischer tells the story of postwar Germany.
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Bella's Way
Nona Willis Aronowitz : Feminism & Women
They just don't make women politicians like Bella Abzug anymore.
2007
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Pointe Work
Nureyev: The Life brings new focus to an iconic figure of modern ballet.
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Play It (Over and Over Again)
Ben Ratliff's not-quite biography of John Coltrane considers the jazz legend's enduring influence.
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