I’d enjoyed Caroline Moorehead’s biography of Martha Gellhorn, but this book fell short, primarily because of the excessively detailed...

About halfway through My Lives by Edmund White, I expected to give it a two-star rating. White spends so much time narrating his abject...

Imagine that Joyce Carol Oates*—who does not seem the type to sit with an astrologer, but let’s pretend—came to see me for a New Year’s...