Skip to main content

The Mentor

Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark The New Yorker
How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump everything.

How Raoul Peck Became a Cinematic Griot

Lovia Gyarkye Hammer & Hope
The Haitian filmmaker has spent 40 years using the archives to combat historical erasure and to highlight the people’s version of the past.

Where’s the Barbed Wire?

John Lahr London Review of Books
Hartigan’s book is the first full-length examination of Wilson’s life and art since his death in 2005 from liver cancer. There is both a need and demand for the story of how he and his work came to be.

books

The Legacy of a Caged Bird

On Gene Andrew Jarrett’s “Paul Laurence Dunbar” Los Angeles Review of Books
During his lifetime, Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African American, was among the most famous poets in the United States. It is one of the great paradoxes of the early Jim Crow era. This biography sheds new light on the writer's life and work.

books

Hegemony Changes Everything

Jennifer Wilson Bookforum
This new biography sheds light on the work and life of this Italian Communist leader who was one of the most significant Marxist theorists of the last 100 years.
Subscribe to biography