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Book review – biography
As a portrait of the thrilling, rackety milieu of the seventeenth-century literary world, Francesca Peacock’s Pure Wit is truly delightful
In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes seems unusually well attuned to his subject, while resisting any temptation to soft-pedal
Roger Lewis answers what it is about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor that still hooks us in
The Marriage Question shows us a woman fragmented
The writer is an easy man to admire and sympathize with, but a hard one to like
Antonia Fraser paints a convincing, shocking picture of upper-class mores in the late eighteenth century
A well-researched new biography of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
King: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of the black civil rights hero to appear in more than thirty years
The new biography Ringmaster unpacks a controversial legend
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close reviewed
