CARL ROLLYSON
Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of…
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Henri Bergson, the Popular Philosopher of Change Who Stood Plato on His Head
Emily Herring’s biography is an extraordinary portrayal of a man and his ideas. It is difficult to imagine a biography of a thinker better than hers, but we will keep looking.
Alexandria Is a City Perpetually Lost and Found
As the author goes about identifying important sites in Alexandria, he meditates on the history that has been destroyed and also on how much of it ought to be preserved.
How Great Artists Work, and What To Do With Their Unfinished Projects
In this indispensable book, Kristopher Jansma does not merely examine the works at hand but the writers’ personalities, methods of working, and how they represented work that was unfinished.
Getting Mary Todd Wrong Means Getting Abraham Lincoln Wrong
Even the greatest biographies are fallible and promote fallacies. David Hackett Fischer said as much more than 50 years ago in his book, ‘Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought.’
How To Pursue Happiness, According to America’s Founders
For the Founders, to be happy, to attain happiness, was the result of practicing virtue as laid out by the classical writers. In other words, the individual strove to be good, not feel good.
When New York Was Not Enough, or Too Much, Creative Types Turned to Sherman, Connecticut
In ‘Reflections,’ famous artists like Arshile Gorky appear in scenes that capture some of what it was like to simply be in their company, to watch and hear them, when they were off-duty, so to speak.
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