The best biographies help us learn about and contemplate the world. By reading about pivotal figures in history, we better ...

Biographies are some of the most interesting books to read because they peek into the ... life from his upbringing in Appalachia during the Great Depression to his international travels pre ...

if you’re about to triple your To-Be-Read pile, I guess blame the Erie Canal. Also blame a great time for biographies. An explosion of diverse voices. A horror renaissance. And no shortage of ...

The Amazon Books editors compiled a list of the 100 biographies and memoires that everyone should read in their lifetime. A few of the titles are admittedly novels (or "authors shrouding their ...

This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary ...

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Let's get the country reading! PBS and WGBH present The Great American Read, a journey through America that introduces our list of the 100 best-loved books and explores the many ways in which these ...

On weekdays and Sundays, we recommend one piece of exceptional writing from The Times — a narrative or essay that takes you someplace you might not expect to go. On weekdays and Sundays, we ...

The Great American Read was an eight-part series with viewer participation to select America’s favorite novel, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated ...