Much has changed in recent weeks. Last month, Bailey’s publisher, W.W. Norton, announced that it was halting promotion and distribution of the book after Bailey was accused of grooming, and in one ...

Meryle Secrest recently wrote a book called Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject (Knopf, 2007). The title is darkly humorous. Secrest does not literally plan homicide.

Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist. In 1927—just five years after the publication of Ulysses and five years ...

This post was updated Sept. 24 at 9:39 p.m. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner’s biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda is an absolute win for “Hamilton” enthusiasts, artists and those curious about education. Miranda’s ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/CNS file) Martin Luther King Jr. once characterized the times in which he lived as “life’s restless sea.” His own turbulent ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Andrea Wulf SCIENTIST E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature By Richard Rhodes The scientist and ...