Biographies Around the Web
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Taking Ted Kennedy for Granted
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago
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The Awards and Rewards of Thomas Bernhard
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago
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How MLK’s Murderer Was Caught
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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Soap Oprah
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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Dubya’s Original Sin; or, The Decider’s First Decision
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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Jerry West: The Man in the Logo
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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In Walked Monk
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
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The Revolution Will Not Be Canonized
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
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The Making of a Journalist: Theodore White Among the Men Who Would Be President
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
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Autobiography in Real-Time: The Journals of Emerson and Thoreau
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
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A Romantic Writes: James Ellroy in Love
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago
Those American Lives
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
It’s like in that scene in Citizen Kane. You know, the one where the reporter David Thompson–in tracking down what in the world Kane could have possibly meant when he uttered, at the very moment of his death, the word “Rosebud”–visits the archives of Walter Thatcher, the man who adopted…
Coming Up Strange: The Education of a Doctor
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
In his hand the basketball looked like a large grapefruit that somebody had painted red-white-and-blue. When the ABA merged with NBA, in 1976, Julius Erving merged right along with it, and the grapefruit may have turned a burnt-orange, but Dr. J’s rococo athleticism stayed the same. The NBA…
The Wizardry of Ozz
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago
That Ozzy Osbourne is even alive to write I Am Ozzy can only be the result of some chimerical life-force—an indestructible core, the center transcending all nature’s explanations for survival. Just look at what he’s been through, and at all of what’s been through him: booze, coke, acid;…
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