Category: Biographies & Memoirs

The Spy Wore Red

When Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty

The founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo remains the most fascinating

By acclaimed Forward Prize-winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller’s linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore

Alberto Manguel’s The History of Reading was an international best seller translated into 34 languages and for which Manguel earned the Medicis

It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what

In this blistering street-level account, “Mafia survivor” Frank DiMatteo teams up with true-crime master Michael Benson to take down one

What are the greatest football games ever played? Debated in every pub, stadium and dressing room up and down the

In only 90 seconds, a fire in The Station nightclub left 100 people dead or dying and injured hundreds more.

Rules to live by from the master of political dark arts, as seen in the award-winning documentary Get Me Roger Stone