That is a belief worthy of Caligula or George III. Finally, Waller’s biography makes one other ... in writing The Determined Spy, but the book is a reminder of how easily the American media ...

For no discernible purpose, the Roman emperor Caligula ordered a floating bridge ... his bed at night and put in a straitjacket by day. Books in review The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life ...

His subjects also included Otis Chandler, Robert Blake and Bonny Lee Bakley. The former L.A. Times reporter and his wife were ...

Throughout the biography there is a whiff of dark comedy, as Caligula is cast as the ultimate demented caesar, corrupted absolutely by his absolute power and driven into depravity. Born of a ...

A posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Hisham Matar’s novel “My Friends” and a poetry collection by ...

Marrying John Lennon brought Yoko Ono a dizzying degree of reflected fame. But her life story is nervy, compelling and shockingly sad both with and without him. Ono’s wealthy but emotionally ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

Thomas Maier’s latest release, “The Invisible Spy,” revisits the cinematic life of real-life U.S. intelligence officer Ernest ...

A little more than 12 years later, Miller’s biography of Weaver — “The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball” — will hit shelves Tuesday. The book ...