When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The critic Kenneth Tynan divided playwrights into two categories, “smooth” and “hairy,” and one ...

Lucian Freud, as presented in the gossipy new biography, Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Grieg, lived for 88 years entirely guilt-free, which is a remarkable bit of pathology in itself, but ...

Looking back on the “odd and unfamiliar” life of Scofield Thayer, the reclusive avant-garde patron, publisher and poet, John Richardson offered what I am tempted to call Richardson’s Law: “Pampered ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. [The Best Books of 2020: View our full list.] “Pictures unpainted make the heart sick.” With this ...

“The glamorous unreliability of Esther Freud’s father, Lucian Freud, is an inescapable force in her novels,” said Markie Robson-Scott on The Arts Desk. Her ninth is a “what if?” exploration of her ...