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03/13/2023

Misunderstanding Maggie Haberman

A Relationship of Command

by Stephen Silver

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01/19/2023

John Coast

a modernist experiment in biography/a challenging experience in legacy

by Scott Anthony

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12/15/2021

Pretty Much Your Standard In Memoriam

Remembering Mike Nesmith

by Melinda Lewis

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11/11/2021

Born to Be Cool

The life and music of Chet Baker

by Matthew Duffus

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05/23/2019

Bagge and Lane

Peter Bagge’s comic biography of Rose Wilder Lane

by Chris Mautner

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02/26/2018

Ali Alive

Jonathan Eig does the fighter justice.

by Steve Donoghue

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01/22/2018

Have Mercy on Me

The new Nick Cave biography is an appropriately tortured comic book.

by Christine Ro

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01/29/2016

The Empire of Gore Vidal

The legacy of an American writer

by Michael Lind

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05/19/2014

To Be a Ghost

by Jessa Crispin

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01/13/2014

Jerk Reaction

by Morgan Meis

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