The rise and demise of the Weimar Republic is the subject of two startlingly timely books- Harald Jahner’s aptly titled …
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Susan Cheever’s ‘When All the Men Wore Hats’ is a moving portrait of her famous father and sequel (sort of)…
Staying in the present is an adage and advice easily and often given, but hard for most to execute. It…
It is no surprise that Stephen Greenblatt’s biography of Christopher Marlowe is a shadowy portrait of a genius rogue playwright….
Tired of the tidal wave of bad news? exasperated at the threats to free speech? horrified at the attacks on…
Arts Journalist and novelist Miriam Seidel conceived her opera ‘Violet Fire’ in 2006 to commemorate the 150th birthyear of Croatian…
Nicholas Boggs’ ‘James Baldwin: A Love Story’ is a masterful biography of the life and times of one of the…
Brokeback Manhattan Henry Wiencek’s dual biography of architect Stanford White and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens is intimately titled ‘Stan and Gus,‘…
Israeli comic, Yohay Sponder, says, “C’mon guys [by ‘guys’ he means Hamas]. The Germans, they’re the Germans, if they couldn’t…
‘Una flor viajaba en mi sangre’ – English translation-‘A Flower Traveled in My Blood’ a line from a poem by…
Thomas Mallon’s New York Diaries covers and uncovers his halcyon days as a newbie writer and out gay man in…
Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘The Director’ is a bio-novel of filmmaker G.W. Pabst who, along with Fritz Lang (Metropolis) and F.W. Murnau…
“Caravaggio,” is a lavish art book just released by SilvanaEditoriale publishers with pristine print transfers of the artist’s painting and…
I had the pleasure of communing with the great American writer Edmund White numerous times over the years. But the…