Anthony Powell and His People
November 11, 2018 · Books & Arts, Magazine, culture
Carl Rollyson on the friends and fights of the author of ‘A Dance to the Music of Time.’
Biographer and Literary Critic
Carl Rollyson
3 articles 2017–2018
Carl Rollyson is a biographer, literary critic, and professor of journalism at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the author of numerous biographies of literary and cultural figures. He contributed book reviews and literary essays to The Weekly Standard, covering subjects ranging from Ulysses S. Grant to novelist Anthony Powell.
The Man Who Lost the Movies
February 23, 2018 · Hollywood, movie review, Books and Art
In 1960, already a movie buff, educated by Bill Kennedy, the ex-film-actor host of CKLW’s programs featuring old Hollywood classics, I took the bus from my east-side Detroit home to the Fox Theatre downtown. I vividly remember watching Victor Mature, all muscles, and Hedy Lamarr, all allure, in…
A New Grant
November 3, 2017 · Books, Books and Art, Writing
We can speak of “settled law.” Not so with biography. The verdict is always out on appeal, and the subject accountable to more litigation. Discovery yields new evidence, and additional litigants take up the case. This is especially so with Ulysses S. Grant.