Research into James Baldwin's archives reveals incisive details about the writer's personal relationships, both platonic and romantic, with other men ...

Richard Ellmann’s “James Joyce” is a classic of literary biography. In “Ellmann’s Joyce,” Zachary Leader delves into the ...

No matter what genre you prefer, summer always offers a veritable literary bounty. This year, Benedict Nguyễn’s “deeply ...

Sometimes, though, you don’t want to be stuck in the kitchen, you want someone else to bring the grub. “Dining Out” by Erik ...

Two will be published this year: “Baldwin: A Love Story,” by Nicholas Boggs, and “James Baldwin: The Life Album,” by Magdalena J. Zaborowska.

Some months ago, inspired largely by this magazine’s content (see “Baldwin the exorcist,” November 2022), I declared for myself a Year of Baldwin: for 12 months, all of my nonfiction reading material ...

In breaking news this week, former New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus finally finished his authorized biography of William F. Buckley Jr. It took him only about 25 years to complete the 1 ...

Off the Malls Tours and the Rainbow History Project join forces for a new walking tour celebrating Washington D.C.'s Black queer legacy.

The first major biography about James Baldwin to be written in the last 30 years, Nicholas Boggs’ Baldwin: A Love Story draws from newly discovered archival material, research, and interviews ...

By Nicholas Boggs c.2025, FSG $35/704 pages “Baldwin: A Love Story” is a sympathetic biography, the first major one in 30 years, of acclaimed Black gay writer James Baldwin.

The political commentator - subject of a new biography, "Buckley: The Life and The Revolution That Changed America" - had a ...

On the pages of National Review and, after 1966, on Firing Line, Buckley pioneered the do-your-own-research rhetorical style: ...