Biography
Reading a play by a great novelist is sort of like listening to Marilyn Manson plow through the Great American Songbook: You thrill at the prospect of colossal failure while also secretly hoping to be surprised. READ MORE >>
In her 1883 memoir of the great American feminist intellectual Margaret Fuller, Julia Ward Howe acknowledged that she was already a late-comer to the haunting story. READ MORE >>
December 07, 2012
Household Words—The Complicated Domestic Life of Charles Dickens
December 04, 2012
The Storyteller—Thomas Jefferson’s Political Calculations
November 27, 2012
Ironing Out the Wrinkles—The Complexities of Madeleine L’Engle
November 26, 2012
Blue Rooms: The Sad, Slicing Lyrics of Lorenz Hart
November 19, 2012
Apathy for the Devil—A Bland Bio of Mick Jagger?
November 12, 2012
