‘The Power Broker’ at 50: Biography as New York Epic Robert Caro’s definitive book on urban planner Robert Moses blends prodigious research, keen reporting and novelistic richness in its ...
MASTERPIECE: What makes the clergy a popular choice for amateur detective in books? Edwards: There are a number of factors, but at the heart of it, they deal with human nature and with the evil ...
This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas’s now-iconic sculpture, and the struggles of late nineteenth-century Parisian life. She is famous throughout the ...