Biography (genre)

Titian painted in a new biography

2012-11-24 04:25:00

-------------------- Titian His Life Sheila Hale Harper Collins: 832 pp., $39.99 -------------------- This is a long book about a long life, a large volume about a large talent. Titian, its titular subject, was the most celebrated painter of his...

And the Golden Hatchet goes to ...

2013-01-08 14:38:00

There’s a certain joy that comes with reading a great literary takedown, the kind of mean but intelligent and precise review that eviscerates the pretensions and the sloppiness of a truly awful book. Over in Britain, they think of a good pan as...

Holiday gift guide 2012: ‘Hobbit,’ ‘Star Wars,’ superheroes, more

2012-11-22 05:03:09

Golden Globes nominations 2013: 'Lincoln' leads the pack

2012-12-14 06:00:00

Spreading its praise between accessible, star-driven movies and a handful of challenging films, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. bestowed a leading seven Golden Globe nominations on Steven Spielberg's biography "Lincoln" while handing five nods apiece to...

Dr. Joseph Murray dies at 93; Nobel winner performed first kidney transplant

2012-11-27 16:40:00

Since ancient times, surgeons have dreamed of transplanting healthy organs into patients disabled by disease and injury, but the human body's powerful immune system stymied all such attempts, leading many observers to conclude that the procedure was...

'Untouchable': A prosthetic-nose-and-all look at Michael Jackson

2012-11-19 00:00:00

In the exhaustive and at times exhausting new biography "Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson," journalist Randall Sullivan presents a radical new theory concerning one of the most heavily scrutinized public figures of the...

In 'Restless,' William Boyd spies overlooked World War II chapter

2012-12-01 12:00:00

British novelist and screenwriter William Boyd doesn't buy the conventional wisdom that a writer should never adapt his own books. His long list of industry credits includes scripts based on his own work (the miniseries "Any Human Heart"), novels by the...

Marilyn Monroe's eternal beauty

2012-07-29 00:00:00

Marilyn Monroe certainly achieved fame in the course of her 36-year lifetime, but in the five decades since her death, she's become such a celebrity-branding superstar, it often feels as if America's proto-platinum pinup never really left the building...

The literary side of Marilyn Monroe

2012-07-29 00:00:00

Since her death on Aug. 5, 1962, hundreds of books about Marilyn Monroe have been published by various writers, ranging from famous names such as Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem and Joyce Carol Oates, to people who worked with her on movie sets. With so...

NYCC: Guillermo Del Toro expands ‘Pacific Rim’ empire with comic

2012-10-11 15:22:15

Han Suyin dies at 95; wrote 'Many-Splendored Thing'

2012-11-11 00:00:00

Han Suyin defiantly straddled two worlds decades before multiculturalism became fashionable. "We must carry ourselves with colossal assurance and say, 'Look at us, the Eurasians!' " the half-Chinese, half-Belgian physician and author whose career swept...

'The Partisan' an opinionated biography of William Rehnquist

2012-10-27 10:00:00

-------------------- The Partisan The Life of William Rehnquist John A. Jenkins Public Affairs: 368 pp., $28.99 -------------------- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was a curious man. He could be courtly and gracious, elegant in argument and a...

Sherlach had worked as the school psychologist at Sandy Hook Elementary School since 1994 and had served on numerous districtwide committees, including the conflict resolution committee, according to a biography on the Newtown Public Schools website.

2012-12-16 00:00:00

Every epoch views art in its own way, so it should not be surprising that a period dominated by popular culture would emphasize the same characteristics in art of the past. "Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre" is a spectacular example.

2011-08-25 07:50:31