Genius and Tragedy: The Life of Alan Turing
History is rife with examples of persecuted scientists—think Rhazes, Galileo, and Servetus, for starters—but it would be a…
Biography
My Backyard Jungle – A Conversation with James Barilla
For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina backyard into a haven…
‘The Marquess of Queensberry: A Fractured Life’. Author Article by Linda Stratmann
The Marquess of Queensberry is perhaps as famous for destroying one of our greatest literary geniuses as he…
Celebrating David Livingstone, ‘Africa’s first freedom fighter’. An extract from ‘Livingstone’ by Tim Jeal
David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history’s greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross…
The Great Agnostic and First American Male Feminist
Susan Jacoby, author of the new biography, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought, here reflects on the significance…
‘The First Ever Record of Everything Jewish’. An Interview with Felix Posen, Founder of the Posen Library
Felix Posen is a man deeply passionate about secular Jewish history, having himself moved from a religiously orthodox…
Charles Dickens: The Greatest Literary Scandal?
In his latest book The Great Dickens Scandal, Yale University Press author Michael Slater peers into the tangled web…
Following in the Footsteps of the Puritans with Francis J. Bremer
Francis J. Bremer, the author of the recently published biography, Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three…
The Great Dickens Scandal: A story which almost destablised Dickens
Yale author Michael Slater introduces his latest book on Dickens, and begins to untangle the web of intrigue…
Sue Prideaux, whose biography of Strindberg has just been longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, reflects on a memorable year for art and biography
Strindberg: A Life has been chosen as one of the 14 titles on the Longlist for the 2012…
Frank, Revealing and Poignant: Yale to publish Richard Burton’s Diaries
This October, Yale will be publishing the surviving diaries of Richard Burton. Starting when he was 14 and…
Origins of a ‘pre-internet blog’: The story of Witold Gombrowicz’s seminal and controversial ‘Diary’
The controversial Diary of the eminent polish author Witold Gombrowicz, has now been published in English after years of being out of print….
History, Observed: Victoria Schofield on John Wheeler-Bennett – historian, royal biographer and ‘witness to history’
John Wheeler-Bennett is not a household name but, in the mid-twentieth century, he knew virtually everyone who was….
Behind the Scream: Essential background reading on Edvard Munch
Today the Tate Modern launches its fabulous new Edvard Munch exhibition The Modern Eye, which focuses on the…
Another Side: Extract from ‘Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown’ by David Yaffe
In Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (out now in paperback) iterary scholar and music critic David Yaffe offers an…