In this first full-length biography of “the mother of African-American literature,” Carretta (Equiano, the African) offers a thoroughly readable, fully scholarly life of Wheatley (c. 1761–1784).

One of the most controversial exhibitions ever at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art came soon after the museum's 1995 reopening in new, permanent quarters: "Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, ...

Henry Adams was a very curious man — curious both in the sense that he wanted to learn all he could about how America operated and curious because he disliked his own time and, in some ways, his own ...

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René Magritte loved tales of mystery, and the best approach to understanding the iconic artist’s life is as a mystery. So argues an insightful and broad-reaching new biography by the late Alex Danchev ...

After Ellmann's biography, I wondered why anyone would attempt to top his scholarship; it was so sure and careful. Well, scholarship is always a series of attempts to do better, but Bowker has not ...

Debussy: A Painter in Sound. By Stephen Walsh. Faber and Faber; 368 pages; £20. To be published in America by Knopf in October; $28.95. CLAUDE DEBUSSY was a rarity: an avant-garde composer who was ...