Did Elaine May disappear — or is that just another Hollywood myth?
The writer, director and actor deserves a better biographer than she gets in ‘Miss May Does Not Exist’
The writer, director and actor deserves a better biographer than she gets in ‘Miss May Does Not Exist’
Four critics discuss what Bradley Cooper’s biopic leaves out
A new biopic of Israel's fourth prime minister is too busy for its own good
Deborah Lipstadt’s new biography aims for a fuller portrait of the prime minister
Concisely chronicling the life and legacy of the Nobel laureate, Joseph Berger's new biography is an indispensable touchstone
Alberto Manguel’s Jewish Lives book on Rambam reveals a thinker guided by reason
In speaking out against Nazism and nuclear war, Norman Cousins was both humanitarian and prophet
While never a believer in Judaism, and at times vicious about the faith, the revolutionary philosopher Karl Marx came from an indisputably Jewish background: Both of his parents’ fathers were rabbis. The fact that he was not, himself, Jewish is the result of a curious historical circumstance. Marx’s father, Heinrich, born Herschel Levi, earned his…