Essays by Cynthia Ozick, a biography of Emperor Hirohito and a novel about two decomposing lovers were among the winners this week at the National Book Critics Circle Awards.

Epstein follows up Essays in Biography (2012) with another collection of provocative and beguiling thought pieces. The six selections grouped under “Memoir” comprise an informal Continue ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “No species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more delightful or ...

Writing about Beerbohm in this hefty collection of biographical essays, Joseph Epstein sees those golden jugglers as “the ones with wit, the ability to pierce pretension, and the calm detachment ...

ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHY By Joseph Epstein Axios Press, $24, 603 pages, illustrated Joseph Epstein may be the dean of contemporary essayists. In some 22 books — none of them featuring car chases or ...

A comprehensive new biography of Russia's Vladimir Putin, a collection of essays about how and why we read and other must-read new books.

As an experienced biographer, Hermione Lee knows a hungry audience. “Readers of biography are greedy readers, with an insatiable appetite for detail and story,” writes the British scholar, a ...

Student essays on writer Mordecai Richler and children's TV star Ernie Coombs were the $5,000 grand-prize winners of A&E Television Network's second annual Canadian Biography of the Year essay ...