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'Longstreet' bio looks back at a divisive leader whose supporters scorned him
NONFICTION: The Civil War general embraced the Union after the war ended. It cost him.
November 15, 2023
Review: 'Into the Bright Sunshine' shows how Hubert Humphrey's Minnesota youth shaped his career
NONFICTION: Samuel G. Freedman's biography looks at the politician's early years, when he championed the rights of Black and Jewish people.
July 12, 2023
Review: 'The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley,' by David Waldstreicher
NONFICTION: The times, if not the life, of the first Black American poet.
March 3, 2023
Review: 'Sister Novelists,' by Devoney Looser
NONFICTION: A fascinating biography of two hugely popular — but now forgotten — authors of the 19th century.
October 28, 2022
Review: 'The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,' by Stacy Schiff
NONFICTION: A superb portrait of the businessman-turned-activist, who shrouded his actions in secrecy.
October 21, 2022
Review: 'I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys,' by Miranda Seymour
NONFICTION: The author of "Wide Sargasso Sea" had a complicated and turbulent life.
June 24, 2022
Review: 'The Bald Eagle,' by Jack E. Davis
The near extinction and amazing recovery of our national symbol.
February 25, 2022
Review: 'A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick,' By Cathy Curtis
A biography of the critic and novelist who married poet Robert Lowell — and paid for it dearly.
November 12, 2021
Review: 'Oscar Wilde: A Life,' by Matthew Sturgis
NONFICTION: The many contradictions of Oscar Wilde are captured in this captivating biography.
October 8, 2021
Review: 'Two-Way Mirror,' by Fiona Sampson
NONFICTION: The first biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 30 years reminds readers of her significance, both in poetry and in politics.
August 13, 2021
Review: 'The Life She Wished to Live,' by Ann McCutchan
NONFICTION: Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings captures the contradictions of the author who memorialized a vanishing way of life.
April 23, 2021
Review: 'The Agitators,' by Dorothy Wickenden
NONFICTION: The stories of three strong women who changed the course of history.
March 26, 2021
