Biography back issues from March 2008:
Editors' note.(online readership of the periodical Biography)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Based on our current institutional subscriptions, you are seven to ten times more likely to be looking at a screen than at a page when consulting Biography--and that probably underestimates the dominance of online use. One of the side benefits of appearing on Project Muse and other online ...
Slave brands or cicatrices? Writing on aboriginal skin in Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland.
Mar 22, 2008; ... CUTTING INTO THE SKIN In 1862, Tom Petrie, the second son in Queensland's first family of free settlers, set out from his homestead at The Pine, sixteen miles north of what is now the city of Brisbane, on a timber getting expedition. He took with him ten Aboriginal men, some ...
Proof of life: memoir, truth, and documentary evidence.
Mar 22, 2008; ... "Does it matter if it's true?" a young woman in the audience raised her hand to ask. I hesitated. I was in Los Angeles, speaking at an academic conference on literary nonfiction. The subject had veered from the general case of nonfiction to memoir, the nonfiction subgenre in which I'd been ...
Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy. The Mind's Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy. The Mind's Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2007. 240 pp. ISBN 1-558-49558-4, $24.95. Interdisciplinary scholarship on trauma has accelerated since the events of September 11, 2001. A field of inquiry that ...
Dana Anderson. Identity's Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Dana Anderson. Identity's Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2007. 209 pp. ISBN 978-1-57003-706-1, $39.95. Anderson's central purpose is to revitalize the concept of identity as a rhetorical tool for the assessment of personal narration. ...
Rosalia Baena, ed.: Transculturing Auto/Biography: Forms of Life Writing.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Rosalia Baena, ed. Transculturing Auto/Biography: Forms of Life Writing. London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2007. 129 pp. ISBN 0-4154-0043-5, $150. Rosalia Baena's collection of essays on life writing draws attention to the crucial significance of form in life writing, and in ...
Catherine Viollet and Jean-Louis Jeannelle, with Isabelle Grell. Genese et autofiction.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Catherine Viollet and Jean-Louis Jeannelle, with Isabelle Grell. Genese et autofiction. Louvain-la-Neuve: Bruylant-Academia, 2007. 262 pp. ISBN13 978-2-87209-817-0, 29.50 euros. Philippe Lejeune writes: <Pre>"Mais qu'est-ce que la genetique? Non, ce n'est pas ...
Richard Bauckham. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Richard Bauckham. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006. 538 pp. ISBN 0-8028-3162-1, $32.00. What kind of biographies are the four gospels of the New Testament? Since the early twentieth century, scholarly ...
Marc S. Bernstein. Stories of Joseph: Narrative Migrations between Judaism and Islam.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Marc S. Bernstein. Stories of Joseph: Narrative Migrations between Judaism and Islam. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2006. 315 pp. ISBN 0-8143-2565-3, $69.95. A century ago, the Bollandist monk Hippolyte Delehaye wrote Les Legendes hagiographiques and put the study of spiritual ...
Marcus Moseley. Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Marcus Moseley. Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2006. 650 pp. ISBN 0-804-75157-9, $70.00. Marcus Moseley's study of the emergence of the autobiographical genre among Jews is a sprawling, original, and enormously erudite tour of ...
Franz Posset. Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Franz Posset. Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 196 pp. ISBN 9-004-14431-5, $125. Having identified a lacuna in scholarly exploration of Renaissance humanism, Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches ...
Ilaria Serra. The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Ilaria Serra. The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies. Bronx: Fordham UP, 2007. 244 pp. ISBN13: 9-7808-2322-678-8, $55.00. Since when do the lives of ordinary, and often uneducated, perhaps even untalented writers become worthy of ...
Maureen Perkins, ed.: Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Maureen Perkins, ed. Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. 187 pp. ISBN 3-039-11323-2, US$41.95, SFR50. Autobiography as social science always enters a difficult space. Self-reflection has a noble history, and is a tried if not fully ...
Bertram J. Cohler. Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Bertram J. Cohler. Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2007. 254 pp. ISBN13 987-0-299-222048, $24.95. In this engaging and well-written study of gay men's life writing in the postwar period, Bertram Cohler offers us insights into the ...
Hartig, Rachel M.: Crossing the Divide: Representations of Deafness in Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Hartig, Rachel M. Crossing the Divide: Representations of Deafness in Biography. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet UP, 2006. 161 pp. ISBN 1-5636-8298-2, $29.95. A biographical treatment of three deaf French biographers' treatments of their deaf subjects. In each central chapter, ...
Amery, Jean: Jean Amery.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Amery, Jean Jean Amery. Irene Heidelberger-Leonard. Trans. (from German) Sacha Zilberfarb. Paris: Acres Sud, 2007. 370 pp. Euro28. Born Hans Meyer (Oct. 31, 1912) in a Viennese Jewish bourgeois family, Jean Amery survived Auschwitz but remained a perpetual exile, for whom ...
Andrews, Julie: Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Andrews, Julie Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography. Richard Stirling. New York: St. Martin's, 2007. 376 pp. $27.95. "Except for a few unrevealing interviews, Stirling, an actor as well as a writer, is reliant on pre-existing material. There is a rehash of some entertaining ...
Antrim, Donald: La Vie d'apres [The Afterlife].(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Antrim, Donald La Vie d'apres [The Afterlife]. Donald Antrim. Trans. (from US English) Francis Kerlin. Paris: Ed. De l'Olivier, 2007. 220 pp. Euro21. His mother was alcoholic, and "infinitely fragile." After her death in 2000, Donald Antrim published several short ...
Babchenko, Arkady: One Soldier's War.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Babchenko, Arkady One Soldier's War. Arkady Babchenko. Trans. Nick Allen. New York: Grove, 2008. 395 pp. $27.50. A memoir of his experience of the war in Chechnya told by a Russian conscript. "This is a great book. From cover ...
Balfour, Arthur: Balfour: The Last Grandee.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Balfour, Arthur Balfour: The Last Grandee. R. J. Q. Adams. London: John Murray, 2007. 479 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. An "accomplished and sympathetic new biography." "With ...
Baker, Josephine: Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Baker, Josephine Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image. Bennetta Jules-Rosette. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2007. 368 pp. $35.00. Jules-Rosette says that her book "offers critical reflections on the symbolic Baker and the images that she and her collaborators ...
Bell, Gertude: Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Bell, Gertude Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations. Georgina Howell. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 481 pp. $27.50. Sjoholm points out that Howell gives readers a view of Bell as a "stateswoman whose diplomacy and political analysis on behalf of ...
Berr, Helene: Journal.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Berr, Helene Journal. Helene Bert. Preface by Patrick Modiano. Paris: Tallandier, 2007. 300 pp. Euro20. Helene Berr is not Anne Frank. She is not a recluse. When she begins her Journal, she is 22. Belonging to a bourgeois family, she is a bright student, preparing for the ...
Black, Conrad: Tilted. The Trial of Conrad Black.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Black, Conrad Tilted. The Trial of Conrad Black. Steven Skurka. Toronto: Dundurn, 2008. 277 pp. $24.99. Skurka is a Canadian criminal lawyer. "For the reader with a general interest in the trial and the doings of the Hollinger Four, Skurka affords some fresh perspectives and ...
Blackburn, Elizabeth H.: Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Blackburn, Elizabeth H. Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA. Catherine Brady. Cambridge: MIT P, 2007. 412 pp. $29.95. "Elizabeth H. Blackburn, telomere, and telomerase are not yet household names, but odds are we'll see Blackburn in ...
Bloomberg, David: My Times.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Bloomberg, David My Times. David Bloomberg. Simon's Town: Fernwood, 2007. 336 pp. R195. The subtitle of My Times describes the author as "man of theatre, lawyer, businessman and former mayor of Cape Town," a neat encapsulation of his memoirs. He tells about his experiences as a ...
Brinkley, John R.: Charlatan: The Fraudulent Life of John Brinkley.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Brinkley, John R. Charlatan: The Fraudulent Life of John Brinkley. Pope Brock. New York: Crown, 2007. 336 pp. $24.95. "Pope Brock captures the shamelessness and adaptability that make Brinkley fascinating, and details his genuine contributions, none of which involve medicine; on ...
Brown, Carrie: Losing My Balance.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Brown, Carrie Losing My Balance. Carrie Brown. Wandsbeck: Reach, 2007. 150 pp. R168. Carrie Brown was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27. She tells the story of her life prior to the diagnosis and after. Every woman, young ...
Bush, George W., and Ronald Reagan: Reagan's Disciple: George W. Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Bush, George W., and Ronald Reagan Reagan's Disciple: George W Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy. Lou Cannon and Carl M. Cannon. New York: Public Affairs, 2007. 382 pp. $27.95. "The Cannons contend that far from being a militant crusader, Reagan was a prudent ...
Chalabi, Ahmed: The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Chalabi, Ahmed The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi. Aram Roston. New York: Nation Books, 2007. 369 pp. $27.50. "In 'The Man Who Pushed America to War,' Aram Roston, a television reporter and producer, tells about ...
Chekhov, Anton: Tchekhov.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Chekhov, Anton: Tchekhov. Virgil Tanase. Paris: Folio-biographies, 2007. 404 pp. Euro8, 40. Yet another biography of Chekhov? But one never tires of him. Tanase consulted archives in Moscow, didn't learn much there, but drew from the letters and books of Chekhov's friends an extraordinary ...
Chessex, Jacques: Pardon mere.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Chessex, Jacques Pardon mere. Jacques Chessex. Paris: Grasset, 2007. 220 pp. Euro17,50. The author, the Goncourt Prize winner in 1973 for L'Ogre, followed by nearly fifty books, writes a lament to pay a debt to his mother: he reproaches himself for ill-loving her, although passionately. He ...
Clinton, Hillary: Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Clinton, Hillary Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers. Ed. Susan Morrison. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. 254 pp. $23.95. "It is odd, if one pauses to consider it, to have a living person be the subject of an anthology. It puts her in the same category ...
Cohen, Jared: Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels among the Youth of the Middle East.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Cohen, Jared Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East. Jared Cohen. New York: Gotham, 2007. 278 pp. $30.00. This book is a memoir of a young American Jewish man's travels across the Middle East after September 11, with the intention of understanding ...
Coles, Don: A Dropped Glove in Regent Street: An Autobiography By Other Means.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Coles, Don A Dropped Glove in Regent Street: An Autobiography By Other Means. Don Coles. Montreal: Vehicule, 2007. 144 pp. $18.95. "Don Coles's refreshing Eurocentrism, high-minded literary values and erudition, which are always cause for praise, are never more on display than ...
Coltrane, John: John Coltrane, sa vie, sa musique.(80 musicians de jazz temoignent)(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Coltrane, John John Coltrane, sa vie, sa musique. Lewis Porter. Trans. (from English) Vincent Cotro.. Paris: Ed. Outre Mesure, "Contrepoints," 2007. 384 pp. Euro32. John Coltrane. 80 musicians de jazz temoignent. Tributes assembled by Franck Medioni, preface by Francis Marmande, ...
Conan Doyle, Arthur: Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle. The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes. Andrew Lycett. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. 527 pp. $39.95. "Lycett is the first biographer in recent years to have access to large numbers of Conan Doyle's letters." He "uses the new material well to ...
Copernicus, Nicolaus: Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Copernicus, Nicolaus Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began. Jack Repcheck. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 239 pp. $25.00. "Jack Repcheck's new biography, 'Copernicus' Secret,' at last brings the astronomer to life in a way that past efforts have not quite ...
Coward, Noel: The Letters of Noel Coward.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Coward, Noel The Letters of Noel Coward. Ed. Barry Day. New York: Knopf, 2007. 780 pp. $47.00. "We're lucky ... that Coward was a prolific writer of letters, that he wrote with an appealing combination of wit and pith, and that he was blessed with an editor who found stacks of ...
Cruise, Tom: Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Cruise, Tom Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography. Andrew Morton. New York: St. Martin's, 2007. 344 pp. $25.95. "Morton says Cruise has been called Scientology's 'savior' and apparently holds him accountable for the religion's airbrushed image, as well as for deaths that ...
Dalai Lama: The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Dalai Lama The Open Road: The Global journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Pico Iyer. New York: Knopf, 2007. 275 pp. $24.00. "In 'The Open Road,' Iyer takes a long, hard look at the many meanings of this deceptively simple man. At first blush, one might wonder why Iyer, best ...
Darwin, Charles: Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Darwin, Charles Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life. Niles Eldridge. New York: Norton, 2005. 256 pp. $35.00. "Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life is a provocative contribution to Darwin scholarship. In it, Eldridge makes a compelling case that Darwin boarded the Beagle a ...
The Dasslers: Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sports.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The Dasslers Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sports. Barbara Smit. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007. 384 pp. $26.95. "Barbara Smit's fundamental claim in 'Sneaker Wars' is that the ...
Donald, Graeme Vivian: Without Fear.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Dinald, Graeme Vivian Without Fear. Graeme Vivian Donald. London: Athena, 2007. 380 pp. R230. Graeme Donald recounts his experiences in New Zealand as a boy, his wartime anecdotes in the Royal Air Force in WWII (he had by now relocated to Port Elizabeth, South Africa), and his failed first ...
Doucette, Fred: Empty Casing.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Doucetter, Fred Empty Casing. Fred Doucette. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2008. 256 PP. $34.95. "In Empty Casing, Fred Doucette tells the story of one soldier, Doucette himself, who rises through the ranks of the Canadian army until, faced with the extraordinary stresses and ...
Eglin, Colin: Crossing the Borders of Power.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Eglin, Colin Crossing the Borders of Power. Colin Eglin. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2007. 374 pp. R225. Crossing the Borders of Power, the memoirs of Colin Eglin, the famed politician in opposition to the apartheid regime, takes the reader ...
Eppolito, Louis: The Good Rat: A True Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Eppolito, Louis The Good Rat: A True Story. Jimmy Breslin. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007. 270 pp. $24.95. "Breslin chronicles the cops' sordid tales with a ...
Ernaux, Annie: Les Annees.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Ernaux, Annie Les Annees. Annie Ernaux. Paris: Gallimard, 2007. 242 pp. Euro17. Says Annie Ernaux: "The Woolfian title is a mere coincidence," adding that "The initial title was 'the total novel."' Finally. it is an autobiography--of a certain type. Ernaux summons all her memories: ...
Fantino, Julian: Duty: The Life of a Cop.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Fantino, Julian Duty: The Life of a Cop. Julian Fantino with Jerry Amernic. Toronto: Key Porter, 2007. 320 pp. $34.95. "Julian Fantino, currently Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, is probably the highest-profile law-enforcement official in Canada. In this ...
Feinstein, Andrew: After the Party: A Personal and Political Journey Inside the ANC.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Feinstein, Andrew After the Party: A Personal and Political Journey Inside the ANC. Andrew Feinstein. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2007. 300 pp. R170. Feinstein is a once starry-eyed ANC MP whose probe into allegations of corruption in a multi-billion-dollar arms deal led the ...
Fine, Derrick: Clouds Move: My Journey of Living Openly with HIV.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Fine, Derrick Clouds Move: My Journey of Living Openly with HIV. Derrick Fine. Kommetjie: The Openly Positive Trust, 2007. 260 pp. R180. Clouds Move is a poignant and revealing memoir of living with HIV in South Africa. Derrick Fine expresses his story in prose, poems, ...
Fischer, Scott: Mountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest and a Life Lived on High.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Fischer, Scott Mountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest and a Life Lived on High. Robert Birkby. Citadel/Kensington, 2007. 342 pp. $24.95. "Scott Fischer is best known as the charismatic American guide who died on Everest in 1996, a disaster told in Jon Krakauer's 'Into Thin Air.' To ...
Foucault, Michel: Foucault. Sa pensee, sa personne.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Foucault, Michel Foucault. Sa pensee, sa personne. Paul Veyne. Paris: Albin Michel, "Bibliotheque Idees," 2007. 222 pp. Euro16. According to P. Veyne, and contrary to a widely held idea (in the US and in Europe as well), Foucault was no leftist. He didn't dream of revolution ....
Gable, Clark: Clark Gable: Tormented Star.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Gable, Clark Clark Gable: Tormented Star. David Bret. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007. 287 pp. $26.00. "David Bret's angle on Clark Gable is this: Gable was 'gay for pay' and 'rough trade,' and he enjoyed having sex 'for bucks.' In addition, he 'would sometimes scrub his ...
Gandhi, Mahatma: Gandhi, ou l'eveil des humilies.(books about Mahatma Gandhi)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, ou l'eveil des humilies. Jacques Attali. Paris: Fayard, 2007. 544 pp. Euro23. In a way, Gandhi's assessment is negative (the secession of Pakistan, Indo-Muslim massacres, the illusory victory of the abolition of castes, non-violence as a dead letter). (In ...
Garvey, Marcus: Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Garvey, Marcus Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. Colin Grant. New York: Oxford UP, 2007. 530 pp. $27.95. "Grant's biography ably captures the Garvey movement, although, perhaps wisely, he leaves the contradictions in Garvey's character unresolved." ...
Gerwin, Elma, Arthur Motyer, and Carol Shields: The Staircase Letters: An Extraordinary Friendship at the End of Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Gerwin, Elma, Arthur Motyher, and Carol Shields The Staircase Letters: An Extraordinary Friendship at the End of Life. Arthur Motyer with Elma Gerwin and Carol Shields. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2007. 152 pp. $25.00. Motyer's book "is largely comprised of e-mails among ...
Ginsberg, Allen: A Blue Hand: The Beats in India.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Ginsberg, Allen A Blue Hand The Beats in India. Deborah Baker. New York: Penguin, 2007. 246 pp. $25.95. "Baker's work is a piece of devoted scholarship and legwork dunked in the screwy, hyper-intelligent, tragicomic essence of everything that drove Ginsberg to take a trip that ...
Goscinny, Rene: Goscinny, la liberte d'en rire.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Goscinny, Rene Goscinny, la liberte d'en rire. Pascal Ory. Paris: Perrin, 2007. 308 pp. Euro20,50. Goscinny et moi. Temoignages. Jose-Louis Bocquet. Paris: Flammarion, 2007. 396 pp. Euro22. Albert Uderzo se raconte. Paris: Stock, 2007. 288 pp. Euro19,50. ...
Gray, Henry: The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Gray, Henry The Anatomist. A True Story of Gray's Anatomy. Bill Hayes. New York: Ballantine, 2007. 250 pp. $24.95. "But Hayes soon finds that the man who defined the known contours of the generic human body is impossible to pin down. He left no diary, no letters, few case notes ....
Greene, Graham: Graham Greene: A Life in Letters.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Greene, Graham Graham Greener: A Life in Letters. Ed. Richard Greene. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2007. 432 pp. $36.95. "Richard Greene (a Toronto academic and no relation to the novelist) is to be commended for collecting and editing the first representative volume of Greene's ...
Gregory of Nazianzus (AD 329-389): Gregory of Nazianzus.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Gregory of Nazianzus (AD 329-389) Gregory of Nazianzus. Brian Daley. The Early Church Fathers. New York: Routledge, 2006. 288 pp. $35.95. "This volume on Gregory of Nazianzus ... contains a well-balanced combination of scholarly reflections on Gregory's life and works along ...
Hathaway, Anne. Shakespeare's Wife.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Hathaway, Anne. See also Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's Wife. Germaine Greer. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. 406 pp. $26.95. "Shakespeare's Wife is an example of an emerging subspecies of Shakespearean biography .... They approach Shakespeare's life story partially or ...
Helman, Cecil: Suburban Shaman: Tales from Medicine's Frontline.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Helman, Cecil Suburban Shaman: Tales from Medicine's Frontline. Cecil Helman. Cape Town: Double Storey, 2004. 237 pp. R150. These are the memoirs of the winner of the 2007 Medical Journalists Association ...
Helms, Jesse: Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008 ... Helms, Jesse Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism. William A. Link. New York: St. Martin's, 2007. 643 pp. $39.95. "Summoning a measure of sympathy for his rather unsympathetic subject, Link can be overly diplomatic in discussing, as he calls it, ...