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Biography as a literary form

Lives by Omission

By J. M. Coetzee, from The Good Story, out last month from Viking. The book collects a series of exchanges between Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz, a psychotherapist, on the correspondences…

Losing ourselves in biography

by Sven Birkerts,

A biographer’s second thoughts

by Ian Hamilton,

Public or purloined? Novelists’ letters, biographers’ rights

by Frederick Busch,

The hunter and the hunted

by James Atlas,

Inventing literary lives

by Hugh Kenner,

The biographical fallacy

Pen pals

by Marion K. Sanders,

A slight case of library fever

by Marion K. Sanders,

Or, how not to write a book

The skeptical biographer

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

Sex in biography

by Ernest Augustus Boyd,

The survival of the cutest

by Philip Everett Curtiss,