The Fair Fields
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
Reborn in the City of Light
At a time when Paris was an incubator of modernism, a group of bold American women arrived to make art out of their lives
Foreign Af fairs
The many lives and loves of the mysterious Saint-John Perse
Her Pages Caught Fire
A new biography of a ferociously talented and determined writer
The Poet Who Painted
Max Jacob, who helped introduce Picasso to the French, was a talented artist in his own right