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Biography

Team America

by Thomas Frank,

There have been an estimated 16,000 books written about Abraham Lincoln; like the lives of the wealthy and the secrets of self-improvement, a fascination with the Great Emancipator is an…

New Books

by Tom Bissell,

In 70 a.d., a few decades after the crucifixion of Jesus, the Roman army destroyed Jerusalem after a long siege. Perhaps no event has had more enduring reverberations. Judaism lost…

Madame and the Masters

by John Crowley,

Blavatsky’s cosmic soap opera

An Obsessive Embrace

by Lyle Rexer,

Garry Winogrand's late sprint

The Chameleon

by Michael Dirda,

Thornton Wilder's multifaceted life and work

Man Underwater

by Wes Enzinna,

The democratic fiction of Richard Brautigan

A Question of Circumstances

by Luigi Pintor,Translated by Gregory Elliott,

From Servabo: A Fin de Siècle Memoir, first published in Italian in 1991, and included in Memories from the Twentieth Century, edited by Alberto Toscano, a collection of three of…

I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love

by Hilton Als,

A paean 2 Prince

Layla Roberts as Pharisee in the Louisiana State Penitentiary production of The Life of Jesus Christ

by Deborah Luster,

Hallelujah

by Rivka Galchen,

An economic companion to the Messiah

The Cake Killer

by Jerzy N. Kosinski,

From “ ‘Being There’ in Toronto,” a May 3, 1987, speech by Jerzy Kosinski. Oral Pleasure, a collection of Kosinski’s speeches, essays, and interviews, edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack and Kiki…