Walter Isaacson’s biography portrays a man obsessed with knowledge and almost impossible to know.
“Goodbye, Vitamin,” “Out in the Open,” “Murder in Matera,” and “Insomniac City.”
Our mortuary conventions reveal a lot about our relation to the past.
She made the best music of her generation by falling in love, over and over, while defending her sense of self.
“Chester B. Himes,” “Saving Charlotte,” “The Burning Girl,” and “Border Child.”
In “Don’t Call Us Dead,” the poet brings the unruly power of performance to the written word.
“The Lowells of Massachusetts,” “The End of Advertising,” “The Dark Dark,” and “The Mapmaker’s Daughter.”
His Presidency was known for corruption, scandal, and booze. In a new book, Ron Chernow attempts to rehabilitate it.
In Jenny Erpenbeck’s masterly “Go, Went, Gone,” a retired academic befriends asylum-seekers in Berlin.
“Notes on a Foreign Country,” “Scale,” “Reading with Patrick,” and “Freud’s Trip to Orvieto.”
