Missives Impossible
I have an appointment with the twenty-first century,Baldwin tells one interviewer, less than a decade before his death in 1987. I guess I feel like I’m part of that appointment,…
Fugitive Love
Marguerite Young’s search for utopia
Our Opinions Are Correct: Three Ways of Looking at Bruce Lee (with Jeff Chang)
Bruce Lee changed American pop culture forever, and his incredible legacy is more relevant than ever. But how did he go from child actor in Hong Kong to one of…
THE R. CRUMB STORY
What on earth happened to this family?
Surprising facts about Mark Twain that biographer Ron Chernow learned while writing new book
Best-selling author Ron Chernow's list of works has revealed details of historical titans easily identified by surnames -- Grant, Washington, Rockefeller. He even inspired the hit broadway musical "Hamilton." Chernow joins…
The Book-Makers
A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
An Angel at My Table
An Angel at My Table is a 1990 biographical drama film directed by Jane Campion. The film is based on Janet Frame's three autobiographies, To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel…
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
by Paula Byrne
Agnès All Along
The stunning, nonlinear career of Agnès Varda