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April 5, 2021
The General, the Mistress, and the Love Stories That Blind Us
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.
Noah Flora
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March 23, 2021
Lady Bird Johnson’s Influence in the LBJ Administration Was Minimized for Far Too Long
Ignoring women’s contributions isn’t just an issue of fairness. The problem is that we simply get our history wrong.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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January 29, 2021
Does Christopher Hitchens Need an Authorized Biography?
Attempts by the former Nation columnist’s widow and literary agent to police a biography are both futile and short-sighted.
David Nasaw
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November 17, 2020
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October 19, 2020
How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?
A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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October 15, 2020
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September 30, 2020
How Kendrick Lamar Became the Voice of a Generation
A conversation with Marcus J. Moore about his cultural biography of Lamar and the L.A. rapper’s impact on Black America.
Ann-Derrick Gaillot
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August 10, 2020
Julian Bond’s Life in Protest and Politics
A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.
Robert Greene II
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July 30, 2020
The Biography That Reimagined a Life—and the Genre
Diane Johnson’s The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives uses speculation and fabulation to correct the biases of history.
Marie Solis
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May 5, 2020
The Worlds of Edward Said
An exile who made the world his home, Said infused his literary style with a cosmopolitan ease and his political commitments with a cosmopolitan ethics.
Rashid Khalidi