We were surprised to discover that Louis Begley, consummate chronicler of Waspy things, had written a “biographical essay” on Franz Kafka. (Perhaps we shouldn’t have been: Both men, besides being ...

Max Beerbohm once observed there were some writers who have been spoiled by their desire to do “important” work: “Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls.

As an experienced biographer, Hermione Lee knows a hungry audience. “Readers of biography are greedy readers, with an insatiable appetite for detail and story,” writes the British scholar, a professor ...

MR. SABINE has attempted in these volumes to present in a judicial spirit a chapter of our Revolutionary history which usually bears the most of passion in its recital, — believing, as he does, that ...

"Chronology of Cole Porter songs and productions": pages 255-267. NMAFRU copy 39088019653518 Gift of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation. Summary The essay (p.[ix]-xix) is followed by a ...

Victor Mikhail Arnautoff papers, circa 1920-2017, bulk 1920-1953. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' ...