American Biographies 
Bill Clinton, Psychoanalyzed: John D. Gartner and the Triumph of Psychobiography
It should surprise no one that the best book ever written about Bill Clinton is by a psychologist. Now, granted, I haven’t read every single book on Clinton, but I’ve read more... ...read more
Self-Discovery in the Wild: An Interview with Cheryl Strayed
Photo by Joni Kabana. The whole thing would have never even happened, in quite this way, if it hadn’t been for that snowstorm. Visiting South Dakota while trying to make sense ... ...read more
Just How Zen was Steve Jobs, Really?
It reminds me of an ancient Zen saying that I just made up. You see, Steve Jobs was trying to rebound from his own self-generated Lisa disaster (the one about the computer, not... ...read more
Interview with John Schulian: A Legendary Sportswriter Tours His Very Own Portrait Gallery
The word genius is terribly underused these days. People throw it around like a 50-pound cinder block, probably in reaction to the days when it was overused with severity. Nowhe... ...read moreOf Jimmy Cannon and Boxing’s Canon
There’s a strange and inexplicable aberration in the Library of America’s new anthology At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing, and to point it out isn’t mere geekery or nitp... ...read more
The Case of the Counterfeit Rockefeller
Before he was finally found out and caught, Clark Rockefeller had been running his con so effectively and for so long, there were few who suspected that Clark Rockefeller wasn’t... ...read more
Stanley Kubrick’s “Napoleon” Dossier
To some of us, the loss of Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon biopic, for want of financing, seems like no great loss at all, not when you consider what he ended up accomplishing in the... ...read more
Daniel Clowes: Putting the ‘Graphic’ in ‘Biographical’
Daniel Clowes has always written characters where others write mere caricatures. That’s his great strength, as a graphic novelist, and you have to wonder if he was angling for i... ...read more
The Soundtrack to Pam Grier’s Life
Been down so long, getting up didn’t cross my mind I knew there was a better way of life and I was just trying to find You don’t know what you’ll do until you&... ...read more
Spy vs. Spy: Richard Nixon and Jack Anderson
Richard Nixon never saw himself as anything other than a hero, even in his least heroic moments, and in his self-styled role as hero, he had many villains, more villains than an... ...read moreFollow Us
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