Lynn Barber

There were times when I wondered whether this book was produced by AI because it is so weirdly written

The Japanese artist suffered her fair share of fame, grief and misfortune

Mia Farrow doesn’t even appear until page 313 of Patrick McGilligan’s latest film biography

In Tom Baldwin’s biography, the leader comes across as compassionate and hard-working, but so ill at ease in front of the cameras

He died almost forgotten. Yet he established a system of taxonomy that we still use two centuries later