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Arts & Culture Books
February 15, 2024
Michael Mewshaw’s 'My Man in Antibes' is an entertaining, moving memoir, spiced with intriguing literary anecdotes about his sometimes fraught friendship with Graham Greene.
Arts & Culture Books
December 13, 2022
A look back at Thomas Mann's 'Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man' and 'The Magic Mountain' reveals an author perpetually in exile—literally and figuratively.
Arts & Culture Books
April 21, 2022
Neeli Cherkovski's expanded edition of his biography of Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a book by “a poet who set out to celebrate another poet.”
Arts & Culture Books
September 30, 2021
To understand the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe demands close attention to his engagements with scientific thought and discoveries.
Arts & Culture Books
April 22, 2021
Julius Margolin's memoir of his time in the gulag tells his experiences through a shattering series of stories.
Arts & Culture Books
October 02, 2020
In a new biography of Robert Stone, Madison Smartt Bell argues that Stone’s career involves both the American dream and the search for meaning.
Arts & Culture Books
April 24, 2020
He is most well known for inventing the light bulb and the phonograph, but Thomas Edison patented 1,093 "machines, systems, processes, and phenomena.” In 1881, Edmund Morris writes, Edison was “executing, on average, one new patent every four days.”
Arts & Culture Books
October 25, 2019
The fear of deceit was the foundation of Orwell’s work.
Andre Dubus lived and worked for much of his life in Havermill, Ma.
Arts & Culture Books
November 29, 2018
Dubus was an irascible, loyal, loving, smoking, hard-drinking, hard-punching, tender man, who demanded much of himself and others.
Andre Dubus III and his father, Andre Dubus (photo from the memoir, Townie)
Arts & Culture Interviews
October 26, 2018
Andre Dubus III is the author of House of Sand and Fog and a memoir, Townie. A complete collection of his father’s short stories has just been published.