A life story can be read for escapist pleasure. But at other times, reading a memoir or biography can be an expansive exercise, opening us up to broader truths about our world. Often, it’s an edifying ...

A new biography surveys the prolific and pioneering career of the filmmaker Agnès Varda. Agnès Varda at home in 2009.Credit...Owen Franken for The New York Times Supported by By Dwight Garner When you ...

Two new biographies focus on legendary musical acts: the rock band The Cars and rapper Tupac Shakur. First, in the late 1970s, a Boston radio DJ played The Cars’ demo tape – and the band went on to ...

Princess Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, pens a memoir that focuses on his time at Maidwell Hall boarding school. "I spent five years of my childhood in this school, trying to crack the code by ...

A. K. Smiley Public Library has many new biographies to choose from, with more coming soon. Selections include presidents, scientists, military and international leaders, civil rights activists, ...

The charm and concision of the best graphic biographies provide dramatic scenes and pithy captions that can evoke a life better than whole paragraphs and pages of narrative biographies. Even so, ...

Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability. Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomas Supported by By Parul Sehgal Parul Sehgal is a ...

“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past.” That notion thrums through two of the most absorbing biographies of the year Tiya Miles’s *Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the ...

No publication date has been set yet, Dan Nadel writes, "I've been wanting to write the biography of his genius artist for many years. It'll take in Depression-era New York, Jewish culture, World War ...

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