For many years my spiritual director in Toronto, Father Cris, a priest of Opus Dei and a genuinely wonderful man, pushed me to write my spiritual autobiography. And for as many years I made excuses ...

“F---ing Virginia Woolf wrote my biography in 1928,” announces filmmaker Paul B. Preciado in the opening moments of his excitingly knotty documentary hybrid “Orlando, My Political Biography.” He then ...

When Jenn Shapland was an intern at a University of Texas at Austin archive, she uncovered love letters written between Carson McCullers, the late author beloved for her novels about outcasts, and a ...

Exercise on the trapeze -- Echoes of my childhood -- Nibbling at fame -- Flirtation with sin -- Invasion of the British Isles -- Ambushed by Somerset Maugham -- Tales of London town -- Portraits and ...