This attrition is the central thread of Funder’s book. Hers is not the first biography of Eileen; both she and Taylor praise Sylvia Topp’s “Eileen: The Making of George Orwell” (2020).

Patricia O’Toole’s new biography, "The Moralist ... In contrast, O’Toole’s book paints Wilson as a compromised moralist, a son and grandson of Presbyterian ministers – and of the ...

The great question of Isaacson’s book is more or less the same question he posed in his 2011 biography of Steve Jobs: Is the innovation worth the assholery? Can we excuse Jobs’s cruelty to his ...