How Richard Ellmann made James Joyce a hero to generations of readers and scholars

A new book explores what the wolf’s return to the continent means for people who have never known its presence.

After Andrea Wulf won the Royal Society’s highest honor for her book The Invention of Nature, a writer at The Guardian attributed it to a new fondness for “female-friendly” biographies among prize juries.

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Each iteration of the classic film is transcendent in its own way. Barbra Streisand, who starred in the 1976 version, says the appeal is simple: “Stardom can be fleeting. There’s always someone new coming up to displace you.”

Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.