We were surprised to discover that Louis Begley, consummate chronicler of Waspy things, had written a “biographical essay” on Franz Kafka. (Perhaps we shouldn’t have been: Both men, besides being ...

As an experienced biographer, Hermione Lee knows a hungry audience. “Readers of biography are greedy readers, with an insatiable appetite for detail and story,” writes the British scholar, a professor ...

It’s hard to read Phillip Lopate’s “The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present” without recalling John D’Agata’s three-volume “A New History of the Essay,” ...

MR. SABINE has attempted in these volumes to present in a judicial spirit a chapter of our Revolutionary history which usually bears the most of passion in its recital, — believing, as he does, that ...

On the Thursday before that terrible Sunday when John collapsed during a hike in the Grampians, he sent me an email, alerting me to a typo in a biographical essay I had published about him. I was so ...

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Selected Essays. By Prof. C. D. Broad. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. xiii + 274. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd ...