Dispatches from the Ottawa biography wars
Paul Wells on Andrew Scheer’s new ’people-like-me’ (read: not Justin Trudeau) sales pitch and the things he chooses to include in life story
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How author Douglas Smith discovered the real Rasputin
Was he a mad monk? A German spy? The empress’s lover? An unkillable puppetmaster? A Q&A with an author who’s shed new light on who Rasputin really was
Leonard Cohen’s tale of redemption
A new biography of Leonard Cohen provides new details on Jimi Hendrix, Phil Spector and Joni Mitchell
Biography of British PM details his dedication to ’chillaxing’
Cameron’s laid-back style is suddenly working against him
The undiminished power of Robert Caro
I am 532 pages into Robert A. Caro’s The Passage Of Power , the fourth installment of what was originally meant to be a...
In conversation: Walter Isaacson
The Steve Jobs biographer on the Apple founder’s genius, cruelty, obsessions, and indifference to money
David McCullough in conversation with Kenneth Whyte
On presidents who were failures, the trouble with historians, and how to tell a story
The life and times of Jack Layton
The NDP leader has left a lasting legacy on Canadian politics
Review: Robert Redford: The Biography
Book by Michael Feeney Callan