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Scott Eyman’s compelling, empathetic account traces Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace in postwar America
This splendid biography of ‘the last conservative’ is also an insightful history of 20th-century thinking
Daniel Schulman’s richly detailed chronicle is a timely corrective to historical distortions that have helped feed antisemitism
Memoirs of the socialites and swells of an earlier era offer perfect festive reading — without today’s celebrity spin
The Path to Paradise digs deep into a man whose achievements are almost too much for one life — never mind one book
Simon Kuper selects his must-read titles
‘Fire Weather’ named winner of UK’s leading award for non-fiction at ceremony in London
Carl Wilkinson selects his must-read titles
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney selects his must-read titles
The latest biographical documentary to land on the streaming service has the usual carefully managed narrative
The Rwandan writer playfully explores storytelling and colonialism
The biographer returns to the media mogul and finds a once-powerful figure shaded by ‘doubt, ambivalence, regret’
The English novelist’s final book blends a memoir of his convalescence in America with the story of his parents’ WWII romance
A heartfelt memoir on being single, living alone and the existential experience of loneliness
Dismissed by Virginia Woolf as ‘an elf’, the prolific 17th-century poet and playwright is given a more positive appraisal in a new biography
Thomas Harding’s biography uncovers the secrets of a chameleonic outsider who made himself a fixture of the cultural establishment
An exploration of the tech billionaire’s epic feats, which is long on reporting detail but shorter on the meaning of Musk
Sarah Ogilvie brings to life the unexpected characters — from murderers and a vicar to Karl Marx’s daughter — who were its early contributors
Ismail Kadare digs deep into a fabled telephone conversation that may have sealed the fate of a dissident Russian poet
A compelling reconstruction of Ruth Walter’s remarkable life explores grief, survival and sudden loss
The obituarist brings a poetic sensibility to an exploration of what defines our soul
Contrasting perspectives on the author — and the invisible life of his first wife
Tiya Miles traces a simple cotton sack across generations of enslaved women to tell a powerful story of love and survival
A redemptive memoir-cum-travel book explores personal and national memories in a region blighted by trauma
Ralph Dutli’s rounded biography of the Soviet-era writer murdered by Stalin deftly examines his literary legacy
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