Ruden in her preface stated that she decided to write a biography of Vergil largely out of curiosity. She is the author of an acclaimed translation of the Aeneid, and she became increasingly intrigued ...

So you landed a stage role—congrats! Whether you’re making your Broadway debut or playing Villager #4 in a school musical, your name is about to be in print. Now you have one task: writing your ...

Remembering the London houses and buildings that were torn down in the name of progress: “Amid the lost houses, lost districts and lost masterpieces, it’s the former enticements of the high street ...

C.M. Lucca was a staff writer for the City Paper from 1982 to 1989, and a Pulitzer winner for her investigative reporting. Despite that, she’s now best known as the widow of the conceptual artist, ...

In 1978, Terrence Malick was considered one of the brightest new talents in Hollywood. His second film Days of Heaven was an ...

Who reads literary biographies these days? The question is pertinent because the audience and the advances for literary biography have been shrinking since the 1980s. Of course certain subjects, like ...