Edel began to work on his biography in the 1940s and 1950s. He presented James as he did in part because he could not treat James’s emotional and sexual life as openly as a biographer would today. For ...

A century ago, the novel was universally acknowledged as the greatest and most all-encompassing of literary genres, and writers seeking to understand the world around them naturally turned to it as ...

Here are just some of the personas inhabited by the artist-provocateur X in Catherine Lacey’s blockbuster novel “Biography of X”: a Montana pool hustler named Dorothy Eagle; the Midwestern folk singer ...

Fiction, memoir and biography sit side-by-side in this book that includes autofiction and pieces born of esoteric inspirations and historical sources that reveal the breadth of the author’s reading ...

Welcome to another America: split between a prosperous, feminist (though still sexist) north and a theocratic south isolated from the world for the past half century by a giant wall. In this country, ...

Jeet Thayil’s new book The Elsewhereans has been published as fiction, but it defies neat generic classifications. With its moorings in memoir, biography, travelogue, photography and history, it is at ...

Dorothy Allison and Bent Writing Institute Readings by Allison and students of Bent, the nation's first queer writing institute. Part of the National Queer Arts Festival. 7:30 p.m. Sat. $5-$15.