Plutarch’s portrayal of parallel lives is the paradigm James Grant pursues in his dynamic dual biography of Edmund Burke and Charles Fox, two politicians and orators of markedly different ...

The film "Literature Appreciation: How To Read Biographies" explores the significance of autobiographies and biographies throughout history. It highlights early examples, such as the inscriptions of ...

The first years of the millennium have become, for interesting reasons, a golden age of popular political biography. The young British writer Simon Sebag Montefiore has just produced Stalin: The Court ...

This lecture imagines how the Greek biographer Plutarch might write a Parallel Lives of an ancient and a modern stateman: Phocion the Good was a fourth-century Athenian statesman, who capped his long ...