Celebrate Pet Sounds’ 60th with a DIY Beach Boys Film Fest
Here are the docs and biopics that will bring you ‘Good Vibrations’
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Biography
Strong on the Rideouts, Weak on the Revolution
Sarah Weinman’s ‘Without Consent’ wants to chart the fight to outlaw marital rape
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The Counterfactual Adulation of Amanda Knox
The claim there is ‘no evidence’ against Knox in the 2007 death of her housemate rears its head yet again
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Unfortunately He Was Available For Mrs Maisel
For this, he held in his pee?
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Why Do Puppets Matter?
‘Shari & Lamb Chop’ looks back at the television of a different era
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‘The Acid Queen’ Reclaims the Life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Susanah Calahan’s brilliant new biography brings Timothy Leary’s wife out of the LSD guru’s shadow
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‘The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon’
An engaging biography that’s overly concerned with protecting a former First Lady’s reputation
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Sylvia Plath, Reclaimed
Biographer Emily Van Duyne mixes new Plath scholarship with raw, stunning self-confession
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Book Review: ‘The Editor’
An outstanding new biography of Judith Jones, the legendary Knopf editor who helped shape modern American literature
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Michael Milken Reconsidered
Close friend offers fresh look at much-maligned 1980s high-yield mogul
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The Real Dahl
New biography offers an unvarnished account of an author’s troubled life
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The Most Hated Man of March
Ian O’Connor tells the definitive story of Duke’s Coach K
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‘Bad Motherfucker’
A conversation with journalist Gavin Edwards about his great Samuel L. Jackson experiment
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‘Nuff Said: The Tragedy of Stan Lee
New biography pulls back the scam behind the myth
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Spying on Louise Fitzhugh
A new biography casts light on the private life of the queer author of ‘Harriet The Spy’
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