Filmmaker Paul B. Preciado’s literate ode to the many Orlandos who walk the world is playful, urgent and brilliantly innovative in its way of exploring transgender identity. Preciado understands how ...

James McWilliams's biography details the life and work of poet Frank Stanford. Stanford, born in Mississippi and raised in Tennessee and Arkansas, died by suicide at age 29. His epic poem "The ...

One of the great chroniclers of America’s literary lives takes on the author who fought to control his own story. Blake Bailey, biographer.Credit...Phyllis B. Dooney for The New York Times Supported ...

"At first, I thought maybe I was the wrong person for the job of writing this book," writes Joshua Gamson in the acknowledgments section of "The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in ...